Nebraska Newspapers

    THE HERALD.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA.
On Vine 8t., One Block North of Main
Corner of Fifth St.
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VOLUME XI.
PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1875.
NUMBER 27.
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Extra copliM of the TlKRALn for a1e hy II. J.
Struijrht, at tho Powtotflre, and U. F. Jolm.on, cor
ner of Maiu aud If if th itrecu.
HENRY BCECK,
D I AXIS IK
PuimituLre,
SAFES, CHAIRS,
Lounges, Tables, Bedsteads,
ma., arc., nr.,
Of All Description.
METALLIC BURIAL CASES.
Wooden Coffins
Of all elzca, ready-made, and void cheap far caa a.
With many thanka for past patronage. I Invite
all to call and examine my
LARGE STOCK OF
Fur nitiii'o mitl CofllnM.
JauCS
AND
MEDICINES
AT
J. H. BUTTERY'S,
On Main Street, bet. Fifth and Sixth.
Wholesale ai.1 Retail Dealer in
Drugs and Medicines, Paints, Oils,
Varnishes, Patent Medicines.
Toilet Articles, etc. etc.
fVPRESCRIPTIONS carefully compounded at
all hours, day and ol.'ht. 35-ly
J. W- SHANNON'S
Feed, &ile and Livery
flTAllTiE.
Main Street, PUttsmouth, Neb.
I am prepared to accommodate the public with
nouses,
Carriages, Buggies, Wagons,
AND
A No. I Hearse,
On Short Notice and Reasonable Termt.
A HACK
Will Run to the Steamboat Land
ing. Depot, and all parts of
the City, when Desired.
Janl-tf
First National Bank
Of Plattsmouth, Nebraska,
successor to
Tootle, Ilauna &t Olavlc.
Joint FrTzeaRAiD President.
E a. Potbt Vice-President.
A. W. McLafusli Cashier.
John O'Koubm Assistant Cashier.
Thla Bank is now open for business at their new
room, corner Main ana Sixth streets, and ar. pre
pared U tranbacl a general
BANKING BUSINESS.
Stocks, Bonds, Gold, Government
and Local Securities
BOUGIIT AND SOLD.
Deposits Received and Interest Al
lowed on Time Certificates.
DRAFTS DRAWN,
Available In anv part of the. United States and In
al) the Vrincinal Towns and Cities of Europe.
ACENTS FOR THE
CELEBRATED
INMAH LIHE anil ALLAN LINE
Persons wishing to bring out their friends from
Europe can
rrncHASB tickets rnon rs
Tlironprli to PlnttHinouth.
Excelsior Barber Shop.
J. C. BOONE,
Main Street, opposite Saunders House.
HAIR-CUTTING,
Shaving and Shampooing.
ESPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO
Cutting Children' mid L,ndle
Hair.
Call and See Boone, Gents,
And set a boon in a
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ntl-ly
OO TO THE
Post Office Book Store,
E. 3. 8TEEIGHT, Proprietor,
roa TOVB
Boots. Stationery, Pictures, Music,
TOYS, CONFECTIONERY
Violin Strings,
Newspapers, Novels,
Song Books, etc., etc
POST OFFICE BUILDING,
PLATTsacoura kej.
O. F. JOHNSON,
DEALER 19
Drugs, Medicines,
AND
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WALLPAPER.
All Paper TriiM Free ofClarse
ALSO. DEALER IN
Books, Stationery
MAGAZINES
AND LATEST PUBLICATIONS.
ytr Prescriptions carefully compounded by an
experienced Drnggist.- a
REMEMBER THE PLACE
Cor. Fifth and Main Streets,
PLATTSM OUTH, NEB.
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THOS. W. SHRYQCK,
PBALER llf
Main St., bet. 5th and 6th,
PLATTSMOUTH, - NEB.
ALSO
UNDERTAKER,
And ias on band a large stock of
INIctallio Burial Cases,
Wooden Coffins. Etc.,
Of all sizes, cheap for cash.
Funerals Attended on Short Notice
II. 1. WATERMM & SOX,
AVbolcsal? and Retail Dealers in
PINE LUMBER,
Lath, Shingles.
SASH, DOORS, BLINDS, ETC.,
On Slain St., cor. Fifth,
rLATTSMOUTH, - - - NEB.
FOR YOUR GROCERIES
CiO TO
J.V.WECKBACH
Cor. Third and Main Sts., PlatUmouth.
(Gnthmann's old stand.)
He keeps on hand a large and wcll-6clccted
stock of
Fancy Groceries,
COFFEES, TEAS,
Sugar, Six-T-T.jp,
ETC., ETC,
Also a Largo Stock of
DRY GOODS
Boots and Shoes,
J l OCK E It Y , il IT E EN 8 WAKE,
Etc., Etc., Etc.
In connection with the Grocery is a
BAKERY and CONFECTIONERY.
llichrst Triic Paid fur Country Produce.
A full stock at all time, and will not he undersold.
' Take notice of the Sin :
"EMPIRE BAKERY AND GROCERY."
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WILLIAM STADELMANN
Ha. an hand n ef fas largest stocks of
CLOTHING
AND
Gents' Furnishing Goods
FOR SI RING AND "UMMER.
I inTite evcryfio-'y in r. ant of anything In my
line to call at ny .tore.
South Sitle Main, let, 5lh & 6th Sts.,
And conrinc themdrr. of th. fact. I have as a
fprcisltv In my R-tiil Departments a stock of
r iue Clothing for Men and Buys, t. which we In-'
Ti'e those b iint rnoil.
I also keep on hand a large and well-selected
lock of
Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, Etc.
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PLATTSMOUTH MILLS,
PLATTSMOUTH KEBRASKA.
Coxbap Ekisel, Proprietor.
FLOUR, CORN MEAL, FEED,
tlwayi n hand and for sals at lowest cash prices.
The Highest Trice paid for Wheat and Cora,
rarticaiar attention to cat leu w.rk.
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Co'GRE86MAS White, of Alabama, has
been appointed an Associate Justice for
Utah.
Elki-8' (Kcp.) majority for Delegate to
Congress front New Mexico ia about
1.500.
N. B. Judd, Collector of Customs at
Chicago, has forwarded his resignation to
Washington, to take effect Oct. 1.
The Kcv. Henry Ward Beechcr has de
clined a proposed public reception at the
Academy of Music in Brooklyn.
Fi ll returns of the vote for Governor
in California give Irwin (Dcm.) 01,525,
Phelps (Kep.) 110,022, BidwelI(Ind.)2J,G:30.
In the new Maine Legislature the Re
publicans w ill have a majority on joint
ballot of twenty-eight nine in the Senate
and nineteen in the House.
A call has been issued by the Michigan
lleform State Central Committee for a
hard-money mass convention to be held at
Detroit on the 11th of October.
The Wyoming Legislature is divided
politically as follows: Council, 2 Re
publicans and 11 Democrats; House, 9
Republicans and 18 Democrats.
Tremendous storms have recently pre
vailed throughout New Mexico, and the
town of Las Cruces litis been nearly de
stroyed by the bursting of a water-spout.
Great damage has been done to the wheat
crop.
The Berlin Municipal Court has sen
tenced the editor of the Germania, an ul
tramontane journal, to five months' im
prisonment for having published an arti
cle insulting the Chancellor and inciting
to disobedience of the laws.
The Orange County (N. C.) election to
fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Mr. Graham, resulted in tlfe election of
the Democratic candidate (Patterson), by
some COO majority, giving the Democrats
two majority in the convention.
A recent Washington dispatch states
that there remained only $28,000,000 of
the new 5 per cent, bonds for negotiation
and that no further call for the rcdemp
tion of the old bonds would be made until
demanded by subscriptions to the new.
The Chicago Tribune of the 21st says:
" The severe frosts of the last few nights
have, to some extent and in some local
ities, nipped the growing corn, but not
disastrously. The great bulk of the crop
had passed the point of injury, and is
safe."
The Alabama Constitutional Conven
tion has adopted a Bill of Rights, one sec
tion of which reads as follows: "The
people of this State accept as final and
established the fact that Irom the Federal
Union there can be no secession of any
State."
It is said the Red Cloud Investigation
Commission will, in their report, unani
mously acquit Secretary Delano and Com
missioner Smith of fraud, and will
condemn Trot. Marsh for the means he
had used to secure evidence against the
Indian Bureau.
The jury in the case of Westervelt, on
trial in Philadelphia for alleged complici
ty in the Charlie Ross abduction, have re
turned a verdict acquitting him of actual
participation in the crime, but find him
guilty of conspiracy to conceal the child
and of having a guilty knowledge of the
abduction.
A letter was publishe I in Boston on
the 22d from Vice-President Wilson, in
which he says that a sense of obligation
and duty to the country would not permit
him to accept the nomination for Gov
ernor of his State, even though it were
tendered by the unanimous voice of the
convention.
The New Tork Liberals have decided
not to nominate a State ticket, but recom
mend that the Liberal and Independent
voters of the State support those candi
dates already in the field whose character
and experience they most approve. They
have resolved in favor of a speedy return
to specie payments.
The recent Democratic State Conven
tion of Nebraska nominated E. A. Thomas
for Judge of the Supreme Court. A reso
lution was" adopted declaring in " favor of
a sound currency, coin or its equivalent,
as essential to stability in business, and a
restoration of prosperity; steps toward
specie pajTiient, no step backward."
At a greenback mass-meeting held at
Cooper Institute, New York, on the even
ing of the 23d, resolutions were adopted
condemning the policy of contraction, de
manding the retirement of the National
Bank circulation and the substitution
therefor of legal-tenders, and favoring the
payment of one-half of the customs dues
in legal-tender notes.
The platform adopted by the recent
New York Democratic State Convention
declares that " a speed- return to specie
payment is demanded alike by the highest
consideration of commercial morality and
honest Government," and reaffirms the
declaration of principles adopted by the
Stale Convention of last year. The foL
lowing is the State ticket nominated : For
Secretary of State, John Bigelow ; Comp
troller, Lucius Robinson; Attorney-General,
Charles S. Fairchild ; State Treasur
er, Charles N. Ross; State Engineer,
John D. Van Buren ; Canal Commissioner,
Christopher H. Wolrath; State Prison
Inspector, Rodney R. Crowley.
How much is there spent on dress in
a season at Saratoga? It would be a curi
ous puzzle to solve. At a rough guess at
least 100,000 people visit this village every
year. Tw o-thirds of these are women, or,
say, at a round figure, 60,000. The aver
age number of dresses and, for conven
ience sake, we'll leave out such trifles as
bonnets, gloves, pencils, etc. brought by
each of these tiO.OOO fair ones may be safe
ly set down at ten, and of these one-half
are certainly new. Two hundred dollars
for an average Saratoga dress is a pretty
low computation ; but let it pass let us
be generous and not swell their husbands'
bills to more than they already are. That
would give us $10,000 spent by each fair
visitor, and, as a total, the round sum of
$60,000,000! How many schools and
hospitals could be founded with this
amount! Saratoga Letter..
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
A report was published by the Carlist
Committee in London, on the 18th, from
Heudayc, to the effect that the Alphonsists
under Tarda had murdered several Carlists
in cold blood in the Aran Valley. Bands
of Carlists near Tolosa had refused to con
tinue the struggle longer, and their com
manders had been placed under arrest by
the Carlist authorities.
Owing to a severe storm which pre
vailed in Texas on the ICth, the city of
Galveston was flooded, the principal streets
being submerged to the depth of from
three to five feet. The Santa Fe Railroad
bridge across the bay was swept away and
thirty persons employed on the Govern
ment works in the harbor were drowned.
The first of the fast mail trains over the
New York Central and Lake Shore Roads
reached Chicago on the morning of the
17th, in a trifle over twenty-six hours from
New York city. A similar train also left
Chicago for the East on the evening of the
lGth. These trains now run regularly,
carrying the mails and newspaper pack
ages. The latest advices received in Constan
tinople on the 10th state that the Consuls
of Austria, Germany ind Italy had de
spaired of bringing about negotiations be
tween the Bosnian insurgents and the
Turkish Commissioner. The English,
French and Russian Consuls, whose spe
cial province was the pacification of Herze
govina, were hopeful. A Vienna dispatch
of the 10th says an insurrection had broken
out at Tiskovae. The Turkish guard
house had been burned and the garrison
had fled. A Constantinople dispatch of
the same date says a telegram had been
received from Mostar announcing the de
feat of a large force of insurgents near
Vishegrad.
Twelve inches of snow fell at River du
Loup, in the Province of Quebec, on the
18th.
Benjamin B. Halleck, accused of the
larceny of $17,000 from the United States
Treasury, waived an examination on the
17th, and was remanded to jail in default
of $40,000 bail. Theodore W. Brown,
accused of the same larceny, was ex
amined on the same day and also remand
ed in default of bail.
Secretary Delano was before the Red
Cloud Investigating Committee on the
17th, and flatly denied some of the state
ments made by Messrs. Marsh and Welsh.
Mr. Delano's statement closed the evidence
taken l3r the commission.
Announcement was made in England
on the 20th of the failure of the Rich
mond iron-works, at Stockton-upon-Tces.
The works embraced twenty-six furnaces
and rolling-mills and employed a large
number of hands.
Bosnia dispatches of the 20th report an
engagement on the preceding day be
tween 2,500 insurgents and a Turkish
brigade, in which the latter were worsted.
It was reported in a Paris dispatch of
the 20th that 3,000 Carlists had crossed
the French frontier. The French author
ities had disarmed and interned them.
The case of Tilton rs. Beechcr came
up in the Brooklyn City Court on the
20th, and by consent of counsel was put
over until the next term.
A serious horse-disease was reported
as prevailing extensively in New York
city on the 20th. It resembled the epizo
otic of two years ago.
Khokand, in Central Asia, was occu
pied by Gen. Kaufman on the 10th. Ac
cording to latest advices up to the 21st all
the Russian prisoners had been delivered
over and the Khan accepted all the condi
tions of peace.
The Grand Council to treat with the
Indians relative to the cession to the Gov
ernment of their rights in the Black Hills
assembled on the White River, about six
miles below the Red Cloud Agency, on
the 21st. Red Cloud refused to attend at
the opening of the council. Senator Alii-,
son opened the conference with a speech
in which he explained to the Indians the
desire of the white people to secure a
right to the Indian Black Hills reserva
tion by giving them a fair equivalent for
the same.
TnE recent storms in Texas prove to
have been very destructive to life and
property. Indianola, a town of between
1,000 and 2,000 inhabitants, was almost
entirely demolished and swept away by
the flood. The latest news received at
New Orleans on the 21st was to the effect
that only three houses which were not
deluged remained in the town. The rail
roads were washed away, telegraph lines
prostrated, and houses, fences and trees
were piled up in broken masses in the
streets. Reports as to the loss of life were
conflicting, but none of them estimated
it at less than from 100 to 150. The towns
of Matagorda and Cedar Lake are also re
ported to be swept away, only two houses
in the former remaining standing and all
the people in the latter being lost. Public
meetings were being held in New Orleans
to provide means to relieve the suffering
people who had survived the disasters.
A Ragcsa telegram of the 22d confirms
the previous reports of insurgent victories,
and says that everything between Novo
warsch and Vishegrad had been burned.
Trebigne had been again surrounded.
Great damage to property and loss of
life resulted from the recent floods on the
gulf coast of Texas. Advices received on
the 22d show that the storm had swept
over the whole line of the coast, and, in
addition to the damage done at Galveston,
that at least nine towns had been nearly or
quite obliterated, namely : Indianola, on
the west shore of Matagorda Bay, having
about 2,000 inhabitants, where but three
houses were left standing and from 150 to
200 lives were lost; Saluria, on the Mat
agorda Island; Sabine Pass; Calcasieu;
San Bernardino; Buffalo Bayou; Lynch
burg, a town of about 2,000 inhabitants;
Matagorda, the capital of Matagorda
County, and Cedar Lake. A large
number of lives must have been lost, and
the destitution and suffering of the sur
vivors were very great One dispatch to
New Orleans from Indianola says : " Send
us help, for God's sake!" Aid was being
rendered to the sufferers by the people of
New Orleans and Galveston. Acting
Mayor Davis, of Galveston, telegraphed
to the Mayor of St. Louis on the 22d, ap
pealing for aid and saying the survivors
in the towns destroyed had lost everything,
and that provisions, clothing and every
necessary of life were needed. These
floods were caused by steady, heavy winds
blowing the waters of the gulf in huge
waves upon the coast.
The Minnesota Anti-Monopoly State
Convention, in session at Owatonna on
the 22d, made up a State ticket by select
ing the candidates for Governor, Secretary
of State, State Auditor and Chief-Justice
from the Democratic ticket, the Lieutenant-Governor
and Attorney-General from
the Temperance ticket, nominating E. W.
Dike, the present incumbent, for State
Treasurer; A. J. Edgerton, the late in
cumbent, for Railroad Commissioner, and
Sherwood Hough, the present incumbent,
for Clerk of the Supreme Court. The
convention also declared in favor of Treas
ury notes as a legal tender for all public
or private obligations; the substitution of
such currency in place of the National
Bank- notes, and that the Government's
bonded debt should be bought in with
3.05 convertible bonds, payable in specie
or currency at the option of the Govern
ment. The Maryland Republicans have nomi
nated: For Governor, J. Morrison Harris;
Attorney-General, S. Teackle Wallis;
Comptroller, Edward Wilkins. This
ticket was nominated as a Reform ticket,
in connection with the Citizens' Reform
party. Resolutions were adopted in favor
of a speedy return to specie payments and
against all further expansion of the cur
rency. The Massachusetts Democratic State
Convention met at Worcester on the 22d
and unanimously renominated Gov.
Gaston. Gen. W. F. Bartlett was nomi
nated by acclamation for Lieutenant-Governor.
The rest of the ticket is as fol
lows: For Secretary of State, Geo. II.
Munroc; Treasurer and Receiver-General,
Weston Howland; Attorney-General,
George T. Perry; Auditor, John E. Fitz
gerald. The platform adopted favors
" the speedy return to specie payments as
essential to the revival of commerce, busi
ness and credit of the country, and to the
welfare of the laboring masses."
Several telegrams from Mississippi
were recently received by Atty.-Gcn.
Pierrepont, sent by persons of both politi
cal parties, commending his recent letter
to Gov. Ames, which is described as hav
ing had a very salutary effect. These tel
egrams tilso mention that perfect peace
reigned in the lately-reported disorderly
portion of the State. Gov. Kellogg, of
Louisiana, is also said to approve of the
Attorney-General's course in the Missis
sippi troubles.
The accounts by mail received on the
23d, giving particulars of the recent storm
and flood disaster at Galveston, Tex.,
represent the loss of property as far ex
ceeding in amount that given by previous
telegraphic reports. Three hundred houses
were swept away, and the destruction to
railroad bridges and other improvements
would run the aggregate loss up to be
tween $3,000,000 and $4,000,000. It was
thought on the 23d that the total number
of lives lost along the coast by the storm
would reach, if not exceed, 400, and sev
eral small towns back from the coast are
rciorted to have been swept away.
Charles G. Fisher, late Assistant
United States Attorney for the District of.
Columbia, has been arrested in Washing
ton on the charge of stealing the apteal
bonds aud papers in several District cases
which had been appealed from the Police
Court to the Criminal Court. He waived
examination, and was held to answer be
fore the Grand Jury. The stolen papers
and others of equal importance were re
covered. J. Russell Jones has been appointed
Collector of Customs at Chicago, tics N.
B. Judd, resigned.
THE MARKETS.
September 23, 1S75.
NEW YORK.
LrvE Stock. Beef Cattle J9.0O&13.00. Hogs
Live, $?.25a8.37i4. Sheep Live, J4.2536.50.
Breadbtltfh. Flour Good to choice, $5.80
6.90; white wheat extra, $tt 25&7-33- Wheat-
No. 2 Chicago, 1.2031.21 ; No. 2 Northwestern,
t.l21'l.J; No. 2 Milwaukee spring, $1.24
lEaNRye Western and State, 9C98c. Bar-
leyl.2i1.23. Corn Mixed Western, 70
73Jic. Outs Mixed Western, 45!8c.
Provisions. l'ork Mess, $21.;:5&-il.35. Lard
Prime Steam, 13iHc. Cheese 5l0c.
Wool. Domestic Fleece, 456ic.
CHICAGO.
Live Stock. Beeves Choice. $5.7o&6.15;
Rood, $5.0035.50; medium, $1.2534.90; butch
ers' stock, $-2.75 1.00; stock cattle, $3.00(3
4.U0. lion's Live, $7.6338.25. Sheep Good to
choice, $1.2534.75.
Provisions. Butter Choice, 26-31c. Eggs
Fresh, 17(lSc. Pork Mess, $21.95(322.00.
Lard $13.35 g,13.37',4.
Br.EADsTurrs. Flour White Winter Extra,
$5.75 7.50; spring extra, $5.250.O0. Wheat
Spring, o. 2, $1.09(31.09. Corn No. 2,
55i57c. Oats No. 2, 31V435c. Rye No. 2,
75G75V4C Barley No. 2, $1.07&1.08.
Lumber. First Clear, $14.0015.0if; Second
Clear. $43.00(345.00; Common liqprd, $10.00
ll.fO; Fencing, $10.00 11. 00. "A"' Shingles,
$-2.5C2.'J0; Lath, $1.75&2.00.
EAST LIBERTY.
Live Stock. Beeves Eest, $6 757.00; me
d am, $5.7536.00. Hogs Yorkers, $7.938.25;
PhUadelphlas, $9 0039.25. Sheep Best, $5.25
5.50; medium, t4.755.00.
A Singular Re-Marriage.
A few years before the late war a cer
tain Dr. Dow came to Calais and boarded
for some time at the Calais House, then
kept by George Wilder. After awhile lie
removed to Princetown, where be married
Miss Spooner, a very respectable j'oucg
lady of that town. The marriage occurred
just Ix fore the war beian, and soon alter
Mr. Dow enlisted. While in the army a
daughter was born to him, and for a time
he regularly sent letters and money to his
wife. But after awhile he ceased to do so,
and nothing was heard from him until
some time after the close of the war, when
his wife learned that he had engaged to
marry the only daughter of a wealthy man
in another State. She went to see him,
but failing to find him she saw his
aflianced, who said the doctor told her his
tint wife and their child were dead. She
then returned home and procured a di
vorce. Some time after this she went
West to work, and falling sick and find
ing herself unable to support her child she
wrote to her "ex-husband," asking him
to contribute toward the support of his
daughter. He replied in a penitent letter,
expressing a desire to see her and talk
over matters. By agreement they met in
Boston, and he provided amply for his
daughter's support. A correspondence
ensued between the divorced parties,
which finally resulted in offering to leave
his second wife and remarry the first one.
She agreed, and about two weeks ago the
wedding ceremony was done over again,
and the twice-married couple have gone
off to seek their fortune. This is a strange
story, but it is vouched for by friends and
acquaintances of the parties, both in this
city and in Princetown, and if we had the
slightest doubt of its truthfulness we
should not venture upon its publication.
C'aUiis (Me.) Advertiser,
BLISSES X0T CAUGHT IN NETS.
True worth is in hcint, not teeing
In doinar each day that roes by
Some little eood not in the dreaming
Of great things to do ly and by.
For whatever men say 5n blindness,
And spite of the fancies of youth.
There's nothing so kindly as kindness,
And nothing so royal as truth. -
We get back our mete as we measure
We cannot do wrong and feel riht, .
Nor can we eivc pain and Kain pleasure",
For injustice avenges each slight.
The air for the wing of the sparrow,
The bush for the robin and wren.
But always the path that ia narrow
And straight lor the children of men.
We cannot mike bargains for blisses,
Nor catch tnem like fishes in nets ;
And sometimes the t'tinir our life misses
Helps more than tue thine: which it gets.
For good lieth not in pursuing,
Nor of gaining of great nor of small,
But just in doin, and doing
As wc would he done by, is all.
Through envy, through malice, through ha
ting,
Against the world early and late,
No jot of our courage abating
Our part is to work and to wait.
And 6light is the stiug of his trouble
Whose winnings are less than his worth;
For he who is honest is noble,
Whatever his fortune or birth.
The Ladies' Darling.
A writer says of " ladies' darlings" :
" The creature is delighted if he can'per
suade himself that he has reason to think
that a score or so of girls are over head
and cars in love with 'him, and there is
ground for believing that he would be
come exhilarated to the last degree if he
were informed that some foolish damsel
had pined away and died of a broken
heart on his account. The fact that so
long as his vanity is ministered to he is
indifferent as to what unhappincss de
volves upon others, affords a not altogeth
er agreeable, but thoroughly reliable, in
dex us to his character. If he had any
conscience deserving of mention he would
not systematically make love directly or
indirectly with every girl with whom he
is brought in contact; but being, as he is,
utterly reckless of the f eeling of his neigh
bors, he does his lest to enslave the lancy
of nine-tenths of the attractive women
whom he meets under circumstances fa
vorable to flirtation. It would be inju
dicious to deny that he achieves success
it may be tliat it won hi be unwise to de
clare that he does not obtain many tri
umphs for some girls are so silly, and
have such susceptible hearts, that they
would become fascinated with a mop-stick
provided that it was skilfully set up.
dressed in male habiliments aud called a
mat; and others, who are a tritle wiser
than to be guilty of such stupidity, are
still foolish enough to believe nine-tenths
of what every shallow-patcd noodle tells
them. But though this is so, there
is cause to hone that the career
of the would-be ladies' darling is
not one of uninterrupted success, and that
he is not the object of so much admiration
as he generally imagines. Occasionally
he receives a prompt and decided check
from ladies who have no wish to be made
fools of, or to suffer in reputation, how
ever slightly, in order that he may be
glonneu; while not a lew females play up
to him before his face and pour unmeasured
contempt upon him behind his back. Nor
is it surprising that they should do so, tor
he gives them every reason to think that
he is a shallow and egotistical fool. His
conversation consists of a series of dreary
inanities, ridiculous compliments which
are as insincere as they are in bad taste,
ami melancholy lokes which consist lor
the most part of ill-natured speeches at the
expense of some unfortunate victim or
other. He seldom assumes that his lady
friends have brains enough to understand
anything except the most superficial mat
ters, and when he does venture to touch
on the last new book, new picture, new
play, new parson, or new sensation, be
merely repeats the cant jargon which is
current in the set in which he moves, and
which frequently condemns what is good
and praises what is bad. Besides his
manner is affected, he wears on his face
an everlasting grin, and he is dressed up
in such a fashion and has such a slinking
way about him that he appears altogether
as much unlike a genuine man as he
could well do. For the rest, he lowers the
moral tone of those with whom he asso
ciates, and scoffs at everything in which
people ot correct teeling take an interest.
An Osage Indian Wedding.
We have just had the rare fortune to at
tend an Indian wedding, the interested
party being the oldest daughter of Lancy
Chief, and the brother of Chetopu, chief
counselor of the nation. The description
of the wedding must be premised with a
brief account of the Indian custom.
Girls are watched very closely, and on
no account are allowed to associate with
men until after marriage. The Indians
object strongly to the agency school, on
the ground that it permits the boys and
girls to associate, and, although the latter
are in the majority in the tribe, only about
ten of the 100 in the school are girls.
hen the oldest girl reashes a mar
riageable age she is thrown upon the mar
ket and sold to the highest bidder, old Vir
ginia fashion with this difference, that
the meuium ot trade is not tobacco, but
ponies. The entire wealth of the tribe
consists of these animals 30,000 of them
to 3,000 Indians so that even the beggars
ride horseback.
For two weeks past the question of ab
sorbing interest to Lancy Chief has been,
"Who will give the most ponies lor
Mother of Eagles? " The girl being
quite pretty, by the Indian standard ot
beauty, brought the high price of seven
teen ponies, isow the man who marries
the oldest daughter has a right to all the
other daughters, be they few or many,
with the privilege of keeping them for his
own wives or of disposing of them when
they reach a marriageable age, thus get
ting his ponies back again iR2ie values
them more than the work done ny the
squaws. JNot only does the son-in-law
acquire Ihe title to all the girls by mar
riage, but he also Incomes the head of the
household, leaves his own lodge lor that
of his father-in-law, and conies into pos
session of all the property. Custom per
mits the father and son-in-law joint use of
the valuables during the life of the former,
and the property descends in the female
line. If you are the father of a large
family of girls, reader, don't jump at the
conclusion that you could invest them ad
vantageously in the Indian Territory.
The only party who seems to reap any de
cided advantage from the matrimonial
sale is the one V) whom you would be
grudge it most the much vilified " poor
relation." For he w ho sells his daughter
for ionics in the Osa:re reservation, in
stead of trottiag off with his newly-ac
quired riches, must forthwith pass them
over to his distant relatives and the more
remote the better.
Lancy Chief has but two daughters, the
bride proper and her sister, a girl of ten
years, who for the past two years has at
tended the agency school. She retused to
be married, wept bitterly, and consented
only after having been severely whipped
twice by her father. It was a sad, sad
sight to see this bright little girl sold to a
man more than twice her own age, ana it
made one a trifle homesick for the land
where woman is not held something bet
ter than a dog but lower than a horse.
On the occasion of a wedding it is Osage
etiquette to witness the toilet-making of
the bride and groom. "e accordingly
visited the camp of the young orave ana
inspected his array. Hisheatf, shaved ex
cept through the center of the scalp, was
painted a bright vermilion, as was also
his face. His ears were adorned by a
I farjre number ot silver ear-bobs, mscos
tume consisted of a finely-embroidered
pair of leggins, a fancy red shirt, and a
bright red blanket trimmed with oiacK
broadcloth. Alter dressing, the groom
retired into the woods to await the prog
ress of events. The attire of the bride, in
its union of simplicity and lieauty, was a
silent protest against the extravagant no
tions of our ace. It consisted of embroul
ered moccasins and leggings, a bright cal-
iiu Mini, biiu over iuis a luucu otuiea in
fantry soldier's coat with its brass buttons
and enormous epaulct.s. 1 hesc were of
old-fashioned brass heavily fringed. The
head-dress was a stiff, black felt hat, orna
mented with two very high military cock
ades. Thus adorned, as Solomon in all his
glory never was, the girls were mounted
upon their ponies likewise richly capar
isoned and attended by the band of the
groom with the invited guests, and pre
ceded by a herald bearing the American
flag, thp procession moved toward the
camp of the huband-elect. When alout
one-third of the way a gun was fired, at
which signal all the women related to the
groom (none of the bride's family being
present) started on a run for the two girls;
the rule leing that those reaching them
first should have a right to the ponies.
When the procession had gone two-thirds
of the distance the bride was taken off her
pony by the women and carried in a
blanket to the lodge of the groom. The
little one was led on her pony to the door
of the lodge, where both were" seated on a
blanket and were reclothed by the women
in garments belonging to "the groom.
Everything belonging to the brides, car
rings, clothes, saddles, bridles and ponies,
was then divided among the distant rela
tives of the groom. The final transfer of
the girls having been made by this
change of garments and their formal
adoption completed into the family of the
groom, the latter was summoned by the
loud voice of the herald from his hiding
place in the wood. The young brave having
appeared and seated himself between the
two girls the wedding feast commenced.
Chetopu and the agent had each furnished
a whole beef lor the occasion, and as
there is little waste in the economy of the
Osage, the entrails being considered the
choicest part of the animal, there was no
lack of viands. Unfortunately we had
seen the food prepared, and it demanded
an enormous effort to accept graciously
the hospitality proffered and partake of
the feast. But the Osage esteems no
insult greater than a refusal to eat with
him, so a wholesome fear of returning
home in the condition of that poor old
darkey who had no wool on the top of his
head sustained us through the dreadful
ordeal. The gorging continued for hours,
and ceased at last only to be resumed the
next day at the house of the bride's father.
The bail thus started rolls on from house
to house, and the merry-making is kept
up tor days. Such is a honeymoon in the
land of the Osage. Osage Agency Cor.
Chicago Times.
FACTS AND FIUUBES.
Louisiana's last sugar crop amounted
to 110,807 hogshead, and molasses to 11,
510,823 gallons.
TnE Spanish Government is to expend
300,000 pesetas to secure a proper repre
sentation at the Centennial Exhibition in
Philadelphia.
Lv France the telegraphic service has
yielded in the past jrear an excess of $ 100,
000 over expenses. The year before ex
penses and receipts balanced, but always
previously there was a deficit.
Cait. KrcnARD Kino, the Texas "Cattle
King," has been visiting at Harrodsburg,
Ky. At his ranche in Texas, Capt. King
has a field of 00,000 acres within one
fence. He recently filled an order by tel
egraph for 20,000 beeves.
There are eleven banks on the joint-
stock principle in England, with an ag
gregate capital of $40, 150,000. In June
they reported deposits to the amount ct
:f 15)4,800,000. One paid 10 per cent, div
idend, two 15, two 10, two 8 and two 0.
Their losses by the recent failures were
4.,'J27,500.
The recent sale of Lord Dunmore's herd
of short-horns, in Scotland, shows that the
days of fancy prices have not yet gone by.
Thirty-nine head ot cattle were sold at an
average price per head of f.i,.ibl, the total
amount realized being $131,115. One
bull, the " Duke of Connaught," brought
f 25,000. An agent of the Viceroy of
Egypt paid $15,000 for one animal.
The allotments of floor space in the
main exhibition building at Philadelphia
areas follows: United States, 16(5,351.7
square feet; France and colonies, 43,314;
England, 51,770; Canada, 24,010; Aus
tralia, 24,070; China, 7,504; Japan, 10,
500; Germany, 27,705; Austria, 24,070;
Sweden, 15,358; Norway, 0,01)7; Nether
lands, 8,107; Denmark, 5,047; Switzer
land, 0,040.
The Philadelphia Times publishes an
interesting letter showing that the water
of artesian wells is not fit to drink. There
is an artesian well at Heading 2,000 feet
deep, costing $22,000, which contains
forty-seven grains of epsom salt to the
gallon. An artesian well at Fifth and
Cherry streets, Philadelphia, contains 110
grains of foreign matter to the gallon, and
can only be used to condense steam for
the boiler. An artesian well in South
street furnishes water not fit for steam. At
Seventh street and Passyunk road there
are two artesian wells, each 100 feet "deep,
but the water of loth is so impure that it
can only be used for condensing. The
water of the well at the Continental Hotel
is not pure. At Louisville there is a well
2,01!i feet deep, one in St. Louis 2,080 feet
deep, one in South Bend, and one in Terre
Haute, but the water of them all is im
pregnated with minerals, and fit osly for
medicinal uses. At Atlantic City a num
Ixt of wells have been bored in the hope
of getting pure water, but not one yields
M ater fit for household use.
Fonr Days Without Food.
A case of subsistanre without food for
an extraordinary length of time was dis
covered at the transfer dcjot of the Penn
sylvania Railroad on Monday afternoon.
A brakeman who had occasion to pass a box
carstandingupon the siding heard a pecu
liar noise issuing therefrom. He unlocked
the door to make an examination, when he
discovered a man lying upon the floor.
Upon approaching the man he discovered
that he was in an exhausted condition,
having leen so reduced, evidently by the
lack of food, that he was scarcely able to
rise. He was carefully lifted from the
car, and stimulants were given him, the
jxxjr wretch devouring all that was placed
Ijeforc him with a greediness that was as
tonishing to behold. A quantity of prov
ender sufficient to satisfy three hungry
men was quickly stowed away, and after
the man had satiated himself he was al
lowed to tell his story. He said that,
wishing to make his way to this city, and
having no means wherewith to pay his
traveling expenses, he entered the car at
Chicago, and had a friend lock the door.
He entered the car on Thursday evening
after supper, and since that time had noth
ing whatever to eat. He had a number of
times attempted by shouting to attract the
attention of employes of the train to which
his car was attached, but had never suc
ceeded till the brakeman heard him call
ing at the transfer depot. The man was
comfortably dressed, and presented no ap
pearance of being a common vagabond.
He refused to give his name. After tel
ling his story he was allowed to depart.
rhikidelphia Chronicle,
SENSE AND NONSENSE.
What's in a name Four letters.
A cry sure to stop a buss Mammas
looking.
The most cutting remark? are made by
the bluntest man.
Is it any proof that logic has legs bo
cause it always stands to reason?
Florida papers are fearful that the al
ligator crop may be short this fall.
Maine honey-dealers prophesy that this
will be an excellent year for beesness.
What is that which every one can di
vide but no one can sec where it is divid
ed? Water.
A London tea merchant advertises for
" one thousand ladies to help to extend
my business."
"My husband," says a lady, "is the
most even-tempered person in the world
he is always mad."
Olive Looan says that not one women
in a hundred knows the art of looking
lovely out of her eyes.
There are in Milan at the present time
no fewer than 300 American girls study
ing for the lyric stage.
Farmers who sutler from the ravages
rkr,n(4fi liiirra urn i n fiirmi il tlinf ruffli.
snakes will destroy them.
A Pennsylvania coroner has petitioned
the Legislature to alxdish the use of stom
ach pumps in that Slate.
When is a hen not joking? When she's
in 'er-nest. .When is she all at sea?
When she's in the hatchway.
Father McGukkin was a wag. Ho
climbed on the top of a church tower and
said: " Now 1 am a high priest."
Now the editor rejoicelh in his henrt
when he seeth in the exchanges a familiar
poem legiuning: "The Melancholy
Days."
The census of Kansas, just completed.
shows a loss of population in twenty-three
counties in the State. The grasshoppers
probably did it.
The Ohio State Journal, describing an
Ohio politician, says: " He is an honest
man by profession, and he cams his bread
by the sweat of his jaw."
Emily Faithful, thinks that justice to
man requires that women who enter me
chanical avocations should scive a full
term of apprenticeship.
The man who siU around whittling
waitinir for something to turn up, is sure
to 1m; rewarded for his perseverance at last
when he will see his own toes turn up.
In dredging Bulfalo harbor the other
day they found a stone war club, and nbw
they are digging down ior uie map who
used to balance it on his thumb and cry
for gore.
Henry Swan, of Otsego, N. Y., called
his wife to him as he was dying aud said :
"Mary Jane, when you feed the hogs to.
morrow night you'll be the widow Swan!'
And she was.
Atlanta. Ga., is said to have more doc
tors than would be needed if a iH'Ktilcnce
was raging, and more lawyers than could
be employed if every man were piaintui
or defendeut in a suit at Jaw.
Mart had a little lamp,
'Twaa tilled with kerosene,
And Mary down the chimney blew
And left this earthly scene.
Gone to meet her father, who drew Lis ffun
to him by the muzzle.
It is estimated that the yield of gold
and silver from the mines of Colorado
Territory, for the first six months of the
present year, toot up in gold, f i,oo,oy,
and silver, $1,101,131). This is not sup
posed to include the products of the placer
mines of the Territory for that perirvl.
A correspondent says of Pike's Peak :
"The ascent has often been made by men
on foot, but only lour times by fadit.-s.
Two ot the ladies ot this party walked
the entire distance from the opening of
the caijyon to the summit, one of them a
lady who came here because of pulmonary
disease."
No animal commands so much attcn
tion as a horse standing in a gutter pud
dle. As he wafts his hoofs about in the
cooling ooze passers-by, though they may
be no judges of horse Eesh, gaze ujmhi
him with much interest us long as they
arc in rancc. and feel a deep solicitude if
he seems bothered by the pesky flies.
William A. BEAcn, the lawyer, has
played cuchcr with the learned pig Ben,
at Saratoga, and been beaten. He heard
of the wonderfully-trained brute, and went
to the show tent late at night, when his
party were the only visitors. Ben was
aroused from a sound sleep. They cut for
deal, Beach in the usual way, and Ben
with a sidewise poke of his snout. The
hog cut highest, and the lawyer dealt for
liim. Beach passed, and Ben, after hav
ing his cards shown to him, picked up a
bit of pasteboard inscribed " Yes," w hich
meant that he " took it up." In that way
the came was played, the pig winning.
2V. Y. Sun.
A careful, old-fashioned man. a few
years ago, came into town to sell some
shares in a bank. "Why do j'ou wish to
sell them?" he was asked; "you cannot
invest vour money better; the bank is
well managed, the dividends certain, reg
ular and satisfactory." Our friend from
the country replied : " Iknow all that; the
bank is well enough; but I don't want
stock in a bank where the cashier keeps a
race-horse and bets on the course." We
lautrhed at the fears of the unsophisti
cated man, but when the cashier defaulted
a few years afterwards the over-cautious
old fogy did not hold any of the shares,
which went down l per cent. i ron
dence (II. I.) Journal.
The Montreal Gazette records a love
story in its local columns. It reads thus:
" It is Mated that a vounir man who four
years ago left the old country and settled
in a plac;e near loronto, wnere ne oougm
a fann, sent for a young lady that he loved
when at home, and came to Montreal to
await her arrival, bhe remained at the
house of the young m:n's friend here?
and everything was going as merry as a
marriage bell until they attended a picnic a
few davs lefore the intended marriage,
when the fair one whow as introduced to a
coachman of good appearance, got married
to hrm before the other man Who orougnt
her over knew anything about it. He felt
greatly disappointed, but returned home a
wiser and more fortunate man for his es
cape."
Tim. Iron World savs: An engine has
leen recently placed on the Pennsylvania
llailroad which weighs seven ions heavier
than the ponderous Modoc, whose draw
ing capacity is about twice mat oi an
ordinary locomotive. The Modoc is ca-
L m . ... t .
pablc of taking eighty loaded cars irom
Harrisburz to Columbia, while other en
gines are put to a severe test when they
pull nity cars on mat portion oi uie nu.
This locomotive, when fully initiated, is
exjected to get away with 100 cars. The
only argument that can be used against
large engines is that they are hard on
tracks, but as the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company has adopted steel rails, able to
withstand a greater pressure than iroo
rails the wear will not be material. The
introduction of these mammoth engines
is considered a very economical measure
by the railroad company.
The analysis of the English clergy
list gives these figures : Total numler ot
clergymen, 23,738; composed of digni
taries, 172; incumbents, 13,300; curates,
5,705; masters in schools, 709; chaplains,
heads of training-schools, etc., 40; tin-
attached, 2,893; clerical fellows oi uni
versities, chaplains in inuia nuu uwo
missionaries, 4J1.
This is a fast age, an1 Uncle Sam's
mails have it badly.