THE HERALD.
PUBLISHED EVERT THURSDAY
PLATTSMOUTH,"" NEBEASKA.
OFFZOBi
On Vine St., One Block North of Main,
Corner of Fifth St.
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VOLUME XI.
PLATTSMOUTTI, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1875.
NUMBER 2G.
THE HERALD.
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T All Advertising Mils doe quarterly.
ffT" Transient advertisements must bo paid fctf
in advance.
Ertra coplos of tho IIeraid for sl by U.J.
Streight, at the Postotflre. and O. F. Johnson, cor
ner of Main and Fifth struct.
HENRY BCECK,
DIAiER IX
6AFES, CHAIRS,
Lounges, Tables, Bedsteads,
TVO,, BTC, TC.,
Of All Description.
METALLIC BURIAL CASES.
Woodon Coffins
Of all sizes, ready-made, and aold cheap far cask.
With many thmks for past patxonaga, I tnvita
all t call and. examina my
LARGE STOCK OF
ZITnrnitiir unci CofXlns.
Jan28
MEDICINES
AT
J. H. BUTTERY'S,
On Main Street, bet. Fifth and Sixth.
Wholesale ar.d Retail Dealer In
Drugs and Medicines, Paints, Oils,
Varnishes, Patent Medicines.
Toilet Ax tides, etc., etc.
tTTTRESCRIPTIOXS carefully compounded at
all hours, day and nijht. 35-1 y
J. W. SHANNON'S
Feed, Sale and Livery
g31.A.TtTs3S.
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
inj. Depot, and all parts of
the City, when Desired.
Janl-lf
First National Bank
Of Plattsmouth, Nebraska,
8UCCESSOB TO
Tootle Ilunna &z Clarlc.
John FmenALS
E. CJ. Dotkt
A. W. McLaughlin...
John O'Koubke
President.
Vice-President.
Cashier.
Assistant Caabier.
Thla Bank In now open for business at their new
room, corner Main and Sixth etreete, and are pre
pared t transact a general
BANKING BUSINESS.
Stocks, Bonds, Gold, Government
and Local Securities
BOUGHT AND SOLD.
Deposits Received and Interest Al
lowed on Time Certificates.
DBAFTS DEAWN,
Available in any part of the United Ststes and in
all the principal Towns and Cities of Europe.
AGENTS FOR THE
CELEBRATED
INMAH LINE and ALLAN LINE
OF STE(.METIS.
Tersona wishing to bring out their friends from
Europe can
rUBCBASB TICKETS FROM VS
Tliroiijjli to XMitt twin oiitli.
Excelsior Barber Shop.
J. C. I300iSrE,
Slain Street, opposite Saunders House.
HAIR-CUTTING,
Shaving and Shampooing.
ESPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO
Cuttluff Children's and Ladies'
Hair.
Call and See Boone, Gents,
And get a boon in a
CIjE 3NT SHAVS.
n41-ly
go TO THE
Post Office Book Store,
H. J. STKEIGHT, Proprietor,
roa ion
Boots. Stationery, Pictures, Music.
TOYS, CONFECTIONERY,
Violin Strings,
Newspapers, Norels,
a
Song Books, etc., etc
POST OFFICE BUILDING,
PLATTSJIOUTH, NEB,
O. F. JOHNSON,
DEALER HI
Drugs, Medicines,
Ain
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WALL PAPER.
AllPaper Trimmed Free ofCtane
ALSO. DEALER rjf
Books, Stationery
BL.1GAZINES
AND LATEST PUBLICATIONS.
ST!TPrescrIptiong carefully compounded by an
experienced Druggist art
REMEMBER THE PLACE
Cor. Fifth and Main Streets,
PLATTSMOUTn, NEB.
SI
THOS. W. SHRYOCK,
DKAI.EB I!t
Fnrnitnre !
Main St., Let. 5th and 6th,
plattsmotjtb:, - web.
UNDEETAK-ER,
And on hand a Urga tocli of
letallic TJtirial Cases,
Weed an Coffins, Etc.,
Of all size?, cheap for eatfe.
Funerals Attended on Short Notice
II. L WATEM1Y & SON,
WholeKal? and Retail Dealer in
PINE LUMBER,
Latli, Shingles,
SASH, DOOES, BLINDS, ETC.,
On Main St., oor. Fifth,
PLATTSMOUTH, - - - NEB.
FOR YOUR GROCERIES
GO TO
J.V.WECKBACH
Cor. Third and Main St., riattpmouth.
(Gnthmann's old stand.)
lie keeps on hand a large and well-selected
stock of
Fancy Groceries,
COFFEES, TEAS,
Sugar, Sirup,
ETC., ETC.,
Also a Large Stock of
DRY GOODS
Boots and Shoes,
CROCKERY, QUEENS WARE,
Etc., Etc., Etc.
In connection with the Grocery is a
BAKERY and CONFECTIONERY.
Iliirliest Triee Paid for Country Produce.
A fall stock at all times, and will not be nndersold.
Take notice of the Sign :
" EMPIRE BAKERY AXD GROCERY."
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WILLIAM STADELMANN
Has on hand on of th largest stocks of
CLOTHING
AND
Gents' Furnishing Goods
FOR SrRIXG AND SUMMER.
I invite everybody in want of anything in my
lino to call at my store.
South Side Main, bet. 5th & 6th Sts.,
And convlnco themselves of ths fact I have as
specialty in my Hi-til Departments a stock of
l ine Clothing for Mtn and Buys, to which we In
vile thoo who want goods.
I aloo keep on hand a larga and well-selected
stock of
Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, Etc.
jsrlyl
PLATTSMOUTH MILLS,
PLATTSMOUTH NEBRASKA.
Cos bad Bbissl, Proprietor.
FLOUR, CORN MEAL, FEED.
Always on hand and for eale at lowest cash prices.
Toe Elghest Prices paid for Wheat and Corn.
Particular atUnUon glvta to custom work.
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Ex-Sexator Scnuitz arrived at New
York on the 14th from Europe.
IIok. Henry T. Blow, of St. Louis,
died suddenly in Saratoga, N. Y-, on the
12th.
The daughter of Prince Bismarck has
been betrothed to the Prussian Count
Wendlzuenlarberge.
Eleven persons were recently killed by
gas at the Dowdington Wood colliery in
Shropshire, England.
A Coli'MBUS (Ohio) pedestrian named
Mike Scully recently completed the task
of walking 1,000 miles in 1,000 hours.
The charge for messages between
America and Europe by the new Direct
Ocean cable is twenty-five cents currency
per word.
A Montreal (Canada) dispatch says that
in the Church of L'Evectree on the 12th,
the Bishop of that city cursed the grave
of Guibord.
The Nebraska Republicans have nomi
nated George B. Lake, T. F. Ganlt and
Samuel Maxwell for Judges of the
preme Court.
Su-
TnE bank of F. B. Hancock, at Green
ville, Ky., was robbed, a few nights ago,
of nearly $35,000 in United States bonds,
currency and gold coin.
Commodore Perry's flag-ship, the Law
rence, sunk in. Erie Harbor sixty-two
years ago, has been recently raised and
the bottom found to be in a good state of
preservation. She is to be exhibited at
the Centennial.
The Legislature of California is composed
as follows : Senate Democrats, 19 ; Inde
pendent Democrats, 5; Independents, 9 ;
Republicans, 7. House Democrats, CO;
Independent Democrat, 1; Independents,
7; Republicans, 11.
Dr. II. T.IIelmbold has begun suit
against the Pennsylvania Hospital for the
Insane. Drs. J. Littell and J. Gordon Max
well, Aid. John Urcan and others who
were concerned in his incarceration in
Kirkbride's Asylum.
A freight train on the Grand Trunk
Railroad was thrown from the track on
the morning of the 14th and totally
wrecked, and several of the employes on
the train were killed. The ruins took fire
and a large number of cattle were roasted
to death.
The "Wisconsin State Temperance ticket
recently nominated at Janesville is as fol
lows: For Governor, II. C. Tilton: Lieu
tenant-Governor. D. W. Gilfillan: Secre
tary of State, H. Y. Brown; State Treas
urer, D. W. Ball; Attornej'-General, Will
iam Monroe.
While Mrs. Uda's patent aerial ladder
was being experimented with in New
York city on the 14th, and after eight or
ten men had mounted the structure, which
was elevated to the height of neatly 100
feet, it suddenly snapped in two and the
occupants were precipitated to the ground,
three of them being instantly killed and
as many more dangerously, if not fatally,
injured.
The Rev. W. E. McLaren, of Cleveland,
Ohio, has been elected Bishop of the Epis
copal Diocese of Illinois, receiving thirty
nine out of sixty clerical, and fifty-five out
of fifty-eight lay votes on the second
ballot. llis election was then made
unanimous. The Episcopal Council of
the Fond du Lac Diocese have chosen as
Bishop the Rev. John Henry Hobart
Brown, of Cohoes, N. Y.
Jake Hicks (colored) was tried at
Augusta, Ga., on the 9th, for being con
nected with the late alleged attempted in
surrection. After the testimony was sub
mitted the Judge charged the jury that
there was not sufficient evidence to con
vict. A verdict of not guilty was returned
and all the prisoners discharged, and the
court adjourned. This ended the prose
cution, except against the two leaders,
who, it was thought, had left the citj-.
A confidence man has been arrested in
Muscatine, Iowa. He had inserted an ad
vertisement in the Chicago Tribune for a
Congressman's clerk, offering f 2,000 and
expenses, and instructing applicants to
address him at that place. His plan was
to reply to each one seeking the position
that, as agent for the Congressman, he
had inquired into the applicants qualifi
cations, etc., and would forward the ap
pointment on receipt of five dollars to de
fray expenses of advertising, telegraph
ing, etc. He had received a large num
ber of letters in answer to the advertise
ment.
Is a letter to Gov. Ames, of Mississippi
published on the lGth, Atty.-Gen. Pierre
pont quotes from a dispatch he had re
ceived from President Grant, in which the
latter says : " The whole public are tired
out with these annual outbreaks in the
South, and a great many are ready now to
condemn any interference on the part of
the Government I heartily wish that
peace and good order may be restored
without issuing the proclamation ; but if
they are not, the proclamation must be
issued ; but if it is, I shall instruct the
commander of the forces to have no
childish play. If there is a necessity for
military interference, there i3 justice in such
interference as will deter the evil-doers."
The President then suggests that Gov.
Ames be urged to exhaust his own re
sources to restore order before receiving
Government aid, which can be given him
when necessary by the troops now in his
State.
A gentleman named Hill, living in
Lower Gold Hill, has a little black-and-tan
dog that accidentally fell into" a hole
about twenty feet deep, near his house, a
few days ago. He shortly began barking,
and his master, being attracted to the spot,
thought he would by an experiment see
how much the dog knew. He procured a
rope, tied a knot on the end, and lowered
it to the dog, who shortly seized it -with
his teeth and hung on until drawn out of
the hole. Gold Hill (A't.) AV?r.
Somebody is writing for the Buffalo
Commercial Advertiser a series of articles
on the " early music of Buffalo." As the
early music of that place was principally
furnished by the frogs it is well if these
primitive artists are at last receiving the
recognition so long withheld from them
through the machinations of the brass
band. Louisville Courier-Journal.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
A DisrATCH from London on the 11th
sa3-s the Privy Council had been asked
for an executive order to prevent the hold
ing of fairs or markets throughout War
wickshire on account of the prevalence of
the foot and mouth disease. During the
preceding week 3,000 cases had been re
corded in Norfolk. Sheep and pigs were
affected as well as cattle.
The entire Spanish Ministry resigned
their positions on the 11th and on the 12th
Gen. Jovellar formed a new Cabinet.
A. II. Thompson's division of Maj.
Powell's exploring party arrived at Gun
nison, Utah, on the 11th, en route for
home, having concluded their explorations
of the season.
A distiller at St. Joseph, Mo., under
prosecution for violation of the Internal
Revenue laws, pleaded guilty on the 11th.
The widow of the late President Lin
coln reached Springfield, 111., on the 11th
in charge of her son Robert. It is said she
is not regarded as being any better, men
tally, than when she first went to Batavia.
A Belgrade dispatch of the 13th says
that on account of the recent concentra
tion of Turkish troops on the frontier the
Servian Government had ordered the
formation of six frontier brigades aggre
gating 24,000 men. A Constantinople tel
egram of the same date says that serious
fighting had occurred during the week, in
which the Turks had been defeated, and
that, in consequence, the siege of Trcbigne
had been renewed.
A water-spout destro3'ed fifty houses
at St. Chinian, France, on the 12th. Nine
dead bodies had been recovered on the
morning of the 13th, and sixty persons
were still missing.
The election in Maine on the 13th re
sulted in favor of Gen. Conner (Rep.) for
Governor by about 5,000 majority. Legis
lature Republican.
In his trial on the 13th Westervelt
testified in his own behalf and swore
that he never saw Charlie Ross,
and in answer to a question whether
he had any knowledge of his wherealnrnts
he replied emphatically that he had not,
but wished he had.
Judge Gilbert, of the New York Su
preme Court, rendered a decision in a
civil-rights case, wherein Wm. F. John
son (colored), of Brooklyn, sought to com
pel the Principal of a public school to
admit his son, instead of sending him to
the school provided for colored children.
The court holds that the common
schools are a public charity; that the
benefits conferred by them are a free
gift from ths State, aud, like every other
donor, the State may prescribe in what
manner the gift may be enjoyed. In con
clusion, Judge Gilbert says that the stat
ute, by guaranteeing equal privileges,
does not confer the right to enjoy them in
common with any class of persons, or in
any particular school, and that nothing
has been shown from which it can be in
ferred that the relator has been deprived
of the equality of privilege to which he is
entitled. The motion for a mandamus
was denied.
The recent severe storm on Lake Mich
igan did much damage to shipping and
caused great loss of life. Among the more
serious casualties was the sinking of two
propellers the Equinox and the Mendota
and the loss of nearly all on board the
two vessels. The former was loaded with
salt, and had in tow the schooner Emma
A. Mayes, and when within about ten
miles off Point Sauble, and during the
severe gale, she suddenly sank. There
were twenty persons on the vessel at the
time of the accident, including the crew
and Capt. Scott's daughter and niece, all
but one of whom are supposed to have per
ished. The survivor Charles Burns,
wheelsman was picked up by a schooner
after being on the wheel-house in the lake
for thirty-six hours. The Mendota, loaded
with coal and having in tow two coal
barges, foundered with one of the barges,
and of the twenty persons on board
twelve were lost.
According to a Vienna dispatch of the
14th Montenegro has definitely informed
the insurgent leader that she cannot make
war against the Porte.
The first fast mail train over the Penn
sylvania route from Ncw'York city for the
West reached Chicago on time on the
morning of the 14th, making the distance
in twenty-six hours. This being a pre
liminary trip, made in advance of the
time fixed upon for the beginning of the
fast train via the New York Central, no
mails were carried. Several Pennsylva
nia Central officials and Eastern newspa
per men accompanied the train on the
trial trip.
A delegation representing the Repub
lican voters of Mississippi called upon the
Attorney-General in Washington on the
15th, to explain the condition of affairs in
that State. They asserted that, owing to
the White League organizations, which
were very general throughout Mississippi,
Republican voters were not able at all
times to exercise their political rights.
They claimed that there was always
danger of serious difficulties unless
their State Government, which was
utterly unable to give them protec
tion, should have assistance from the gen
eral Government Upon the advice of the
Attorney-General the delegation would re
turn to Mississippi and confer further
with the Governor and ascertain what they
could do in their own support
In a statement read before the Red
Cloud Investigating Commission in Wash
ington, on the 15th, Indian Commissioner
Smith emphatically denies the charges
made against him by Prof. Marsh."
The Rev. II. W. Beccher having con.
sented to a proposition made by the District-Attorney
of Brooklyn to enter a nolle
prosequi ia the libel suit of the former
against Frank D. Moulton, Mr. M. em
phatically demands a trial under the in
dictment pending against him.
The ninth reunion of the society of
the Grand Army of the Cumberland was
held at Utica, N. Y., on the loth. Sen
ator Conkling made the welcoming speech.
Gen. Sherman and Col. George J. Water
man delivered lengthy and eloquent ora
tions. President Grant, Gens. Hooker and
Slocum and ex-Gov. Seymour were pres
ent and made brief speeches. Gen. P. II.
Sheridan was chosen President of the
society for the ensuing year; Gen. H. M.
Cist, Corresponding Secretary; Col. John
W. Steele, Recording Secretary, and Gen.
J. S. Fullerton, Treasurer. The next
meeting is to be held at Philadelphia July
G and 7, 1S7G.
A dispatch from Madrid on the lGth
announces the capture of the Carlist town
of Oyarzun, together with the Governor
and his subordinate officers.
Belgrade papers of the lGth say that
Turkey had again violated Servian terri
tory. Her armament was continuing.
The latest returns received on the lGth
indicated that Gen. Plaisted, the Republi
can candidate for Congress from the
Fourth Maine District to succeed the late
Samuel F. Ilersey, would have about 1,000
majority.
THE MARKETS.
September 18, 1375.
NEW YORK.
Live Stock. Beef Cattle $10.5013.25. Hog
Live, $S.X8.25. Sheep J4.50ati.25.
Bkeadtcffs. Flour Good to choice, $ G.00J5
6.40; white wheat extra, $ti.4(&r. 50. Wheat No.
2 Chicago, $1.211.2S; No. 2 Northwestern,
$1.2S!&1.29; No. 2 Milwaukee spring, $l.a0
1.31. Rye Western and State. StXglfiJ. Ear-
ley $1.221.25. Corn Mixed Western, Ttj'
13c. Oats Mixed Western, 457c.
Pkovisioss. Pork Mesc, $21 .001(21. 25.
Lard Prime Steam, 13;i13?c. Cheese 4(3
10c.
Woor.. Domestic fleece, 4:53 65c.
CHICAGO.
Live Stock. Beeves Choice, $"i.75(3;ti.2j;
good, $5.00(5.60; medium, $1.255.C0; butch
ers' stock, $3.O04.OO; stock cattle, $1.00ai-00
Uogs Live, $7.603.50. Sheep Good to choice
$1.25 J. SO.
Provisions. Butter Choice, 2630c. Efrgs
Freeh, 14,4ai5c. Pork Mets, $21.8021.90.
Lard $13.0013.20.
BREADSTcrrs. Flour White Winter Extra,
$5.757.75; spring extra, $j.25.25. Wheat
Spring, No. 2, $1.131.13K. Corn No. 2, 61
oHic. Oats No. 2, 37K38c. Kye No. 2,
7CS76V4c. Barley No. 2, $1.111.12.
Lumber First Clear, $ 14.0045.00; Second
Clear, $43.00(45.00; Common Boards, $10.00
11.00; Fencing, $10.00tl.00; "A'' Shingles,
$2.t02.90; Lath, $1.7'.2.00.
EAST LIBERTY.
Live Stock. Beeves Best, $tj.757.00; me
dium, $5.756.25. Hoys Yorkers, $7.!(08.15;
Philadelphia, $9.50y.75. Sheop Best, $5.25
5.50; medium, $4.25(24.50.
FACTS AD FIGURES.
TnE State census, just completed, gives
Charleston, S. C, 54,000 inhabitants.
Ij the 225 churches in Brooklyn, N. Y.
$170,850 is paid annually for music.
Portland, Ore., has a white population
of 11,500, with about 2,000 Chinamen.
It is estimated that during the last six
months over 97,103 persons in this country
have been killed by violence.
ViCTOit Hugo, it is said, has made
$700,000 by his pen. Of this amount his
plays alone netted $150,000.
TnE Board of Health of Washington are
about to declare the decayed wood pave
ments in that city a nuisance as a source
of disease, and will order their removal.
Even if the Indian is a fellow-man, he
is an expensive luxury to his more favored
white brethren and tax-payers. Last yea'
it cost $8,032,752.73 to have him aiunl
The exports of butter from France in
1S74 amounted to 83,000,000 pounds,
worth $18,000,000. This is calculated to
represent the product of 400,000 cows,
each yielding about 200 pounds of butter
yearly.
During the last quarter of a century the
number of volumes in the British Museum
has increased from 435,000 to 1,100,000; in
the Rihliothcquc Nationale, Paris, from
824,000 to 2,000,000, and in the public li
braries in the United States, from 980,000
to nearly 20,000,000.
The medal that was voted by Congress,
June 20, 1874, to John Horn, Jr., of
Detroit, has, one side, a has rclif profile
of Mr. Horn, and upon the other an in
scription setting forth that Mr. Horn has
saved 121 men,Wonien and children from
drowning in the Detroit River.
The English Earl of Dunroven has
bought a large piece of laud in Estes
Park, Col., and desires to preserve the
game there for sporting purposes. The
neighboring settlers do not approve of
thit, and his Lordship will probably
have to keep a large force of gamekeepers.
A Philadelphia man has invented a
velocipede to be propelled in water. The
machine consists of three zinc floats of the
shape of a cigar, placed at equal distances
from the center, at which point the opera
tor sits upon a chair three feet above the
water. In front of, and partly under the
chair, rests a paddle-wheel, turned by the
feet with cranks.
TnE report of the Deputy Master of the
English Mint for the year 1874 has recent
ly been presented to both houses of Par
liament. It appears that during the year
the total coins struck numbered 27,407,
142, of the value of .2,371,739. The gold
coinage, including both sovereigns and
half-sovereigns, amounted in value to 1,
402,929, or considerably less than in pre
ceding years, but to this must be added
nearly two millions sterling of gold coin
age imported from Australia.
The following from a Georgia exchange
shows that the growth of that State is
truly wonderful. The figures given are
authentic, and are as follows: "In 18G5
the taxable property of Georgia was
$12G,G35.87; now it is $273,085,000 more
than doubling since the war. There are
thirty-five railways in the State, with an
aggregate length of 2,000 miles. The
State debt is $8,105,000, and this is 'par
tially offset by property owned by the
State worth $0,000,000, leaving the net
indebtedness $2,105,000. It has $3,G02,
000 invested in cotton and woolen mills,
$735,190 in iron founderies, and -$G,000,-000
in tonnage.
" The tramp" is attracting considerble
attention in New York at present. A re
porter of the Tribune has been visiting the
haunts of the homeless, and in a recent
issue gives an interesting account of the
number and habits of those unfortunates.
Sleeping in Union Square, in doorways
and under wagons, he found, at three
o'clock Sundav morning, 258 men of all
ages and conditions, from the most de
based beggar to the well-dressed debauchee,
sleeping off" the effects of a night's ca
rousal. The average number of lodgers
in the square is about 175. The police
have given up the task of compelling them
to "move on," finding it easier to keep
the evil-disposed ones uader surveilance
in troops than separately. At Central
Park, which the police try to keep clear of
tramps at night, forty were found sleep
ing, while in the ruins of the hotel pro
jected by William M. Tweed, at Filly
ninth street and Fifth avenue, fifty-four
were found snoozing the weary hours
away. The other public squares and
parks throughout the city are more or less
frequented by these vagabonds, the major
ity of whom subsist by petty thieving and
sometimes burglaries. After a night
spent in the sky-roofed lodging-house the
tramp bethinks himself that he must have
his morning dram. Looking over the way
he sees a pile of beer kegs which have
been emptied ut the saloon, and with an
oyster-can or piece of tin formed into a
rude vessel he catches the dregs from the
casks and drinks. Passing up the streets
he comes to the market and watches his
opportunity to catch a bone or piece of
old meat or, going to the railroad depots
or vegetable and fruit stands, he looks
abo'jt to find a discarded cabbage or other
vegetable, or perchance a few apples or
peaches which have not been soli the pre
vious day. t
LAKE MICHIGAN DISASTERS.
The Milking of tliel'ropellero Equinox
and Mendota SurTlvort Storleo.
The Chicago morning papers of the
14th contain detailed accounts of the loss
of the propellers Equinox and Mendota,
as given by rescued parties. The only
known survivor of the crew of the former
yosel reached Chicago on the 13th, hav
ing been nicked up by the schooner
Havana. llis namtf 1 given bv one of
the papers as Charles Burns, and his story
is condensed as follows:
Bums, who was a wheelsman, remained
in the wlieelhonse until five minutes of
tlie time the Equinox went down. When
the line by which the M .13-1-3 was towed
was cut ihc propeller had in-arty eight
h et of water in her hold. Her gangway
had been stove in br the heavy seas and
the salt between decks was washing over
board. She had only two boats. One
had been launched, containing Capt.
Dwight Scott, the mate, two lire-men, six
deck hands and another man, unknown.
There re twenty on board in all, in
cluding two ladies. The propeller went
down liy the stern, and just before the
sinking Burns and Capt. Woodruff had
been working to get the second loat
launched. The tackling caught, however,
and neither having a knife with which to cut
the gU3s it became too late, and Burns
and Capt. Woodruff" took to fenders, of
which the former secured two. The up
per works of the propeller floated oil", and
Burns seeing the deck of the pilot-house
within a short distance of him, struck out
for it and succeeded in getting upon it,
thus losing sight of Woodruff'. Tho
Equinox went down about ten miles off
Point Sauble, at about two o'c lock Friday
morning, or a little after, and Burns feels
quite certain that all, except those in the
boat, perished, as also Capt. Woodruff", as
the latter could not possibly live in that
sea on the fenders. The young ladies, the
daughter and niece of Capt. Scott, were
so overcome by fright that the3' were easy
victims. Besides these ladies there were
left on board five persons. . A blanket aud
sheet, from the berth below the pilot
house, were secured by Burns, and he
lashed himself to the uprights in which
the wheel was rigged, and so floated, lie
went through a terrible ordeal, and became
so chilled and exhausted that had it not
been for his precaution in lashing himself
he must have been washed off' and per
ished. An hour or two after the sinking
of the propeller the second cook came
drifting in the vicinity c f Burns, who saj's
he unlashed himself, swam to the man and
got him almard the pilot-house deck, but
lie soon afterward died and washed off.
Later, the boat containing those mentioned
above came along. Capt. Scott asked
Burns to enter it, but he preferred not, and
the boat and raft soon afterward separated,
the boat going Burns docs not know
where. The gale was at its height, and
Burns does not think Capt. Scott's party
weathered it. At least, if the boat had
outridden the storm or been picked up,
she ought to be heard from by this time.
Burns took to the fenders at about two a.
m. Friday and was taken off' his raft about
sixty miles off' the Manitous,the middle of
the lake at nine p. m. Saturday, the rait
going to pieces soon after.
Eight of the survivors of the Mendota
also reached Chicago on the 13th. One
of their number, a seaman, tells the fol
lowing stor3':
There were f wenty persons on board the
propeller, including two ladies, the Cap
tain's wife and the Steward's wife. They
hal a prosperous voyage until they
reached Glen Harbor, on Lake Michigan,
about four o'clock Thursday afternoon,
when the wind began to blow a gale from
tho northwest. A few hours later the
wind changed to the north, and a fearful
sea was making. They passed Point Bet
se3 at a quarter past twelve Friday morn
ing, and the propeller, though laboring,
went along all right. At about two o'clock
one of the barges, the Morning Star, broke
adrift. By this time the arches of the pro
peller broke away and she began to make
water. TI1C3' then let go the other barge.
This was about eight miles east of Point
Sauble. When it was observed that she
was siuking one of the boats was lowered.
Tiie Captain was the first to enter the
boat and the mate the second.
Ev-rylxdy that could crowded into it.
The crew were told not to get in it by
the Captain, but to launch the second
boat, though he knew there was not time
enough to "do it. Ten persons crowded in
the boat, and when the Captain saw his
wife was not in it he tried to have her
paved, and in the effort to do so he fell out
of the loat, and was jammed between the
arch and boom. The Captain got back
into the boat again, and more tried to get
in, but they were driven back by the mate.
The Captain's father fell out, and was
killed by being jammed between the bul
warks and the hawser-box. In the effort
to save the Captain's wife, who was seen
clinging to the hawser-box, the owner's
son, Biily Crossthwaite, anil the second
engineer were thrown out of the boat. No
effort w as made to save them, and Mr.
Crossthwaite climbed up on the pilot-house,
on top of which he was last seen. This
left but eight persons in the boat. They
pulled for a quarter of an hour toward
the sinking boat, tiying to save the Cap
fciin's wife. At about three o'clock the
vessel went down stern first Nothing
could be heard from those left on board of
the wreck, except that the Steward's wife
cried: "Oh. my God!" The wind was
terrible, and the waves were filling the
small boat in which they were, but by bail
ing they managed t keep it afloat They
were on the boat twenty-nine hours, and
were once passed by a vessel which he is
confident was the schooner Emma A.
Mayes, and, though they made signs of
distress no notice was taken of them, and
the schooner passed on. When they nearcd
land they saw a small schooner coming
toward th-?ni, which proved to be the Ad
die, of Manitowoc. They were taken on
board and kindly treated by the Captain
and crew and taken into Manitowoc.
Fall Dresses.
TnE first importations of fall dresses
show very little change from the fashions
oftheBummer. Basques, over-skirts and
sacques prevail, as they have done all
summer ; it is said an effort to restore the
polonaise will be made later in the sea
son. The cuirass basque fitting the figure
smoothly will be retained. It will have
broad forms behind, whether with or
without side bodies. Short backs will
also remain in favor. Freshness will be
given the cuirass by new ways of trim
ming. The front may be plainly but
toned, or else only fastened across the
chest over a vest, and there are also some
new basques that button diagonally. The
double Byron collar is one of the novel
ties that will appear on fall costumes.
This consists of a large Ityron collar
made ot the silk that forms part of the
costume, upon which is a separate smaller
collar ot the same shape, made of the
woolen goods of which the suit mainly
consists. Silk sleeves with woql basques
will be worn again, giving the popular
effect of sleeveless jackets. Basques of
plaid and striped costumes will be cut
bias; to make these effective there should
be very few seams to- interrupt or break
the lines, hence the broad French backs
are preferred for these, anel the lines are
made to meet in the seams. Long bows
made of doubled silk are set about on
basques and sacques. sometimes in most
useless places, as at the end of the front
or back seams, while others are on the
chest at the throat, just back of the neck,
and on the wrists. Silk pipings finish the
edges of basques. Sleeves are simply
trimmed, and of close coat-shape. A band
of narrowly-folded silk pleats around the
wrists, with a pleated frill falling on the
hand, makes a stylish cuff for silk or tor
wool sleeves. Pleating and braid are the
trimmings most used.
There are new ways of draping ovor
skJrts l3r pleating them to the lower skirt,
and putting heavy box-pleating down the
front. The present effect of long tabliers
with short backs is also retained. The
long round overskirt that was among the
first introduced, and has oxiste-d despite
all novelties, is now slightly changed, and
is called the long square overskirt. This
chaije is in the back, where- it is left
open from top to bottom, has souare
corners below, and is trimmed with a
pleated frill up each side of the opening
to the belt; the deep front is close and
clinging like that now worn, .and its back
is arranged so that its trimmings w ill meet
and stay together instead of falling w ide-I3-
open. This is prettily illustrated on a
fall suit of black and white shepherd's
check of very heavy twill. The long
square overskirt has 11 pleated frill of
black velvet, and is worn over a lower
skirt of black velvet. The basque has a
black velvet vest and velvet sleeves.
Double Byron collar, one of velvet, the
other of wool. The long overskirt.- of
handsome black silk costumes are stylish
ly finished bj' having their entire i-dges
cut into squares neatly piped, and the lot
tom of each square trimmed with fringe
or wifii lace. For trimming wool suits
there are heavy wool fringes more elaborate
than aii3r fringes before shown. There are
fringes, deeply netted, fern fringes, Ity
fringes, w ith small tufts of wool tie-el on a
string, bell fringes, and newly-arranged
tassel fringes.
Buyers just returneel from Taris confirm
Mine. Raymond's assertion that stripes are
preferred there to plaids; but they lear
stripes w ill not prevail here, because they
have not gone out of use for several sea
sons past, and purchasers are asking for
something more novel. However, some
of the most stylish imported suits are of
striped Algerienne, soft, flexible wool
fine, 3'et of coarse, w iry appearance. In
Paris it is worn in brown, blue anel gray
grounds, with stripes of gilt and tinsel,
, anel is trimmed with gold or silver gal
loon. To be stylish the stripes must be
broken and irregular, just as plaids now
are, instead of the even, bold stripes once
consielereel stylish. Among striped Alge
rienne suite for early fall Wear arc those
of black grounds striped with w hite lines
in clusters of three or four lines separated
by wide black spaces. These are made
up with black gros grain, and trimmed
with black agate buttons. The sielc plcat
ings of these stripeel suits are alwa3 s cut
bias. One model that has been dupli
cated for several houses is of black and
w hite striped Algerienne, with a deep bias
side-pleated flounce around the bottom.
The tablier has a broad box-pleating of
black gros grain down the middle, orna
mented by two rows of agate buttons, anel
holding the Algerienne apron, w hich is at
tached to the front breadths of the lower
skirt; pointed hack breadths edged with
netted fringe form drapery behind. The
striped basque is cut bias and pi peel with
silk; two silk scarfs begin at the waist
behind, and are tieel in a long bow on the
eelge of the basque. Double Ityron collar
and silk sleeves complete the suit. The
Lous XV. jacket of stripeel stuffs, showing
a plain basque like a vest underneath, is
also frequently seen with such suits; the
sleeves arc also plain to match the vest.
Leael-eoloreel stripes on black grounds are
considered stylish combinations.
Plaiel woolen suits will be made in the
fashions just described for stripes. New
plaid thinners are straight and gathered,
and are edged top and bottom with knife
plcatings of solid color. Plaiel trimmings
on suits of solid color ar largely imported.
Dark navy blue woolen suits are trimmed
with white and blue plaid.
Costumes of hcavj Knickerliocker cloth
with irregular knotted threads will be
among the handsomest woolen suits. The
la-st models are in solid colors, although
striped anel plaiel Knickerbocker woeilcns
are very largely imported. Dark seal
brown Knickerbocker, with the raised
threads of lighter brown or of white,
makes very tasteful suits when trimmed
with brown silk, velvet or braid. Some
such suits have diagonal rows of wide
Titan braiel across the tablier, vest and
sleeves. There are also hanelsome suits ef
heavy breiwn ele bege, warm enough for
midwinter, trimmed with brown silk and
a brown braiel in which are threads of gilt
and silver.
Another very heavy fabric, similar to
Knickerbocker stuff's, is called Snows of
Spitzbergen. It has a elark cloud-gray
ground of thick wool irregularly dotted
with white fleecy spots like snow-flakes.
This will be used for over-dresses onty, as
it is too heavy for the whole costume.
Porcupine cloths are also new this sea
son. These have dark, smooth grounds,
thickly set with phaggy hairs that are
more soft, and pliable than those of the
Tctl 1 porcupine." This w ill be used
for outshle wraps, sacques and jackets.
Finely twilled serges and cashmeres in in
visible plaids, also in dark Highland
plaids and other dark mixtures of colors,
are commendeel by merchants of experi
ence. Quaint combinations of colors are
shown ia stripeel 6erges; thus plum-color
is striped with blue, gray with cardinal
red and navy blue with green.
Damask-figured gooels of fine wool are
combined with gros grains in street cos
tumes. These are shown at houses whose
fastidious customers refjuire the latest
novelties. The figures are in matelases
designs, anel resemble the moyen-age bro
cade silks already described. A brown
euit of woolen damask lias the basque of
damask, with silk sleeves. The back is
quite short, has two small pwkets
trimmed with bows, and the waist is de
fined by. buttons of shaded tortoise-shell.
The over-skirt is edged w ith wool fringe,
has long bows down the fnint and is made
short and lxiufTant behind. The silk skirt
has a shirred puff, with alternate ruffles
of silk and wool. Foreign correspondents
describe costumes of damask wool asso
ciated with velvet of the same shade and
trimmed with silk braiel in which are
threads or checks of gold and silver.
Black cashmere suits promise to remain
the jiopular attire for autumn and winter.
They are no longer trimmed w ith showy
jet and lace, but with substantial braids,
fringe anel made trimmings of gros grain.
A very neat model has a long cuirass
basque and long square overskirt. The
basque has silk sleeves, Byron collar, a
knife-pleating of silk on the edge, a clus
ter of silk pleats down the back seam, and
long Ixrws down the front. The over-skirt
has tw o row s of knife-pleating on the edge
and up the back ; a row of bows is clown
the front, and a "reticule" pocket of silk
is on the left side. The lower skirt is of
silk, trirnmeil with three narrow side
pleatings. Correspondents who have
asked for hints about early fall suits are
advised to use this model. It is very
stylish for traveling costumes when made
up in seal brown or flate-colored cashmere
-and silk. Those who are making black
alpaca suits can also take thi for a guide.
The pleatings should be of alpaca, and
buttons may be useel instead of bows. The
buttons used on new suits are saucer
shaped, an inch in diameter, and have
eyes in the middle. There arc also very
neat plain buttons of twilled silk put
smoothly over a wooden mold. Harper's
Bazar.
A very small lioy is more modest than
a larger one. While the latter directly
asks the peddler for a peach, 1 he former
will stand bj-ani bashfully explain several
hundred times: "I like them, I do
peaches is what I likes, peaches is." And
if the peddler is confident he cannot kick
the child's head off without being seen, he
gives him a peach. Danbury News.
THE MXEJrS BETROTHAL
l-.Y JOHN .lAMI'.S I'lATT.
The miner kissed his midden bride. " L'pon
St. Lucia's la-,
Their Messing em our live, f ist-l-onml, tin;
ru-Mlv palms slrill Iiiv;
Then we will build our lucky nct In summer
trees together.
Where Pence ami Love. li- sinin-r Mtds,
shall keep their sunny wciiiii r."
Yesterday came the Sabbath-day; oh, bright-
Iv e-ve-rvwlici :!
The esirth wss wii-ullicd dilnly with tho
h'-avenly liulo-uir;
Anil in the il'lgc e Impel, for t! f second time
proclaimi-il.
The holy b:ii!S were spoken, i;d tin- happy
morrow named.
'Miood-inorumi;," at her window now lm
greets her, going by,
Down to tie midnight iniin; all day her
smile's her bright reply:
" fiood-moriMiig," in his heart it sings, istiel
merrily and fat
From her sweet sluht he oin'licil far away
into the past!
Ghul-he-arted plays lu-r needle, and her woik
is made of song;
Fancies at loving work for hove lighten flow
Time along.
Slowly the morning dies and slow the even
ing hours depart.
And in her cheek the roses limh their fra
grance tills he-r heart.
Fifty long years of happy Junes and
dreary, dark December!
Fifty long ye-nrs of smiles ami tears bl ight
li resides, dying embers!
Fifty long years on what strange shores
have crawled their broken waves!
How far away their echoes dead drop down
in memory's raves!
Old crowns from dust gleam, buried, and old
scepters lie forgot;
Old prisons, earthquake-shaken low, have
opened doors for Thought;
Gray, giant sluniberers have waked with
blindness in their ryes;
The West has rounded toward the East more
manly destinies.
Some miners toil w ithin a mine one morning
bright and fair,
In olden excavations deep below that morn
ing air;
When lo! a dreamer lying there, asleep in
youth benign!
And with his dream about him, Jrcsh, they
bring him from the mine.
No one remembers seeing hirn. None know
him. Who is he?
Lying a dreamer all alone, a man of mys
tery? Full of the love-dream long ago, he seems a
dreamer now:
Yesterday's kiss is in his heart, this morn
ing's on his brow!
They arc all gone, they are all gone, tho
eloFC-fumiliar faces;
Old footsteps falter far away, old echoes loso
their places;
No father, no mother, no brother, steals
among that crowd to see
And find his Iwbtfaee ia their hearts, a burled
memory.
Hut who is she that comes, her hands long
weary with their part?
From the old coffin of he-r love he wakens In
her heart!
Love only sleeping there like him leaps up as
live nnd young
As when the dews of the fur days to Maying
roses clung.
Her eyes unhlinded by the years of patient
waiting pain,
She claims him for her own, long-lost; she
clasps him back again;
To a true heart she clasps him back; her
wrinkled features trace
Life's paths of sorrow lifty years Death ha
not seen his face!
" fiood-morning," long Ago he said ; he comes
to say "tiood-even."
Love that has lived so long on earth has
inolte-d wings for heaven.
A few more days, the appointed time, Death
will the blessing say:
She knows her used betrothal, and she waits
the wedding-day.
The story Is related of a young miner, some
where in the north of Europe, whoso body wns
found lifty vears after his death by the falling In
of a mine, preserved lifo-lik by some chemical
property iu the enrt h, and wan recognized only
by the faithful woman, grown old and withered,
to whom he had been betrothed. A'l'ti ton'
Jovriml. -
SENSE AND NONSENSE.
A member of the St. Louis Board of
Education proposes to establish a school
especfally for adults. A pood idea.
A i.akoe whale stranded on the beach
at Boekaway, L. I., has been one of the
sights there, but lately Iims become one of
the smells.
Thocsands of people who have gono
down to the New Jersey resorts this sea
son all pale anel lifeless are now coming
back home all rosy with mosquito-biles
and active with the ague.
(Jail Hamilton' thinks she has found a
clear case of genius in a little Cambridge
lx3', w ho, the other d;i3', closed his li.it of
exports of Massachusetts with "many
learned men from Harvard College."
In one part of Missouri there are some
people aw fully mystified by the occurrence
of a shower of' hay, and some hundreds of
miles distant the people are grumbling
terribly that the whirlwind should come
just as their hay w as cut.
The researches of the British Boyal So
ciety, extending over 200 years, fail to
show a single case of sudden change of
color in human hair, nnd, although the
popular belief is strong in the affirmative,
men of science doubt that it ever occurred
outside the pages of novels or poems.
An elderly lady who, with he-r daugh
ter had just returned from rather a rapid
journey' through France, part of Germany
nd Italy, was asked the other day if they
had visited Home, and she replied in the
negative. " La, ma, 3'es we did," said her
daughter; "that was the place where we
ljought the bad stocking. "
A girl near Utica, N. Y., a few
days ago mistook the meaning of a voting
man who was looking up pickers for bis
father's hop-yard, and when asked if she
was engaged, sweetly said : "Not yet, but
alwaj-s thought it would be pleasant."
The young man rode home quickly and
dreamed all night of brcach-of-promiso
trials.
The most perplexing thing in a youth's
life is when his girl gets mad and returns
the numerous trinkets that he has bought
for her. He hardly wants to sell them;
be can't palm them off' on his pet choice
for new goods with any degree of satisfac
tion or safety; they're probably things that
he can't wear himself; and he's kit with
them on his hands, and so he can only
stare at them and count up how much they
cost.
GoiNCi up Abliolt street, yesterday, a
man saw a loy about ele ven years of age
seated on the sidewalk, bareheaded, in
the full blaze of the scorching sun. " Bub,
3-011 ought not to sit there!'' said the man.
"Why" " Because you'll get all tanned
up." "Makes no difference to me whether
I sit in the sun or the shade," sadly
answered the hoy. "Mother tans me up
three or four times a day, anyhow. He
troit Free l'rcfis.
A coctle of "gentlemen" entered a
fire brick store in Akron, N. Y., the other
dav, while the proprietor was absent, and
informed the clerk that they wished to
purchase some fire-brick. While one of
them was being shown around the place
looking at the bricks, the other, who had
requested leave to write a letter w hile his
companion was absent, busied himself
within the office making two cheeks, one
fortl00 and the either for 0'00, signing
the proprietor's name to both, and affixing
the regular office stamp, as was the cus
tom. That the checks in every respect
were perfect imitations of the genuine may
be known from the fact that both were
cashed without question at the National
bank. The whereabouts of the forgers
have not been discovered.