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VOLUME XI.
tSENRY BCECK,
DEAJLEIt I
JB1ai?ni-t"mi?e,
SAFES, CHAIRS,
Lounges, Tables, Bedsteads,
rm, BTC., ETC,
Of All Descriptions.
METALLIC BURIAL - CASES.
O. F. JOHNSON,
DEALER I2T
Drugs, Medicines,
AND
Wooden Cofliris
C,t all sizes, rrady-roade, and void cbopftrcua.
With many thank for pad patronage. I lnrlte
11 to call and cxamin my
LARGE STOCK OF
37111' nitiii niiil Oofllnis.
Jr.ys
MEDICINES
AT
J. H. BUTTERY'S,
On Main Street, bet. Fifth and Sixth.
Whid. sale ai.J Retail Dealer in
Drugs and Medicines, Paints. Oils.
Varnishes, Patent ITedicines.
Toilet Articles, etc., etc.
tTrilKSCIMITIONS carefully compounded at
a'l hours, tl.iy an 1 night. 3."-ly
Toed, Sale awl Livorv
Main Street, Plailsmoutli, ' Neb.
I ara prejian-vl to accommodate I he nulilicwith.
Carriages, Buggies, Wagons,
AND
A T3o. I Hearse,
0a Short Notice and Reasonable Terms.
A HACK
Will Run to the Steamboat Land
ins;. Depot, and all parts of
the City, when Desired.
jaul-tf
First National Bank
Of Plattsmouth, Nebraska,
SrCCESSOR TO
Tootle, Iliiuiin fc Clarlc.
John Fitzokrald....
K. u. Vovr.r
A. W. M( Li (.m is..
John O 'Rocrkk
President.
..... Vice-Pre? id en L
Cashier.
. . .Assistant Cashier.
Thia Bank is now open for business at their new
mom. corner Main and Sixth streets, and are pro
pared t transact, a general
BANKING BUSINESS.
Stocks, Bonis, Gold, Government
and Local Securities
BOUGHT AND SOLD.
Deposits Received and Interest Al
lowed on Time Certificates.
DHAFT3 DRAWN.
Available in any part of the United States and in
al) the Vrincfpal Towns and Citiee of Europe.
AGENTS FOR THE
CELEBRATED
INHAN LINE aM ALLAN LINE
OF STXtLV3X3I?.
Persons wishing to br!u2 out their friends from
Europe can
rcnrnni ticket? mom rs
Xlivongli to IMattKinontJi.
Excelsior Barber Shop.
J. C. JSOOZNTK,
hlain Street, opposite Saunders House.
HAIR-CUTTING,
Shaving and Shampooing.
ESPECIAL ATTENTION tilVEN TO
Cuttin? Children's and Ladies'
Hair.
Call and See Boone, Gents,
And get a boon In a
OIjE -A- S XX -A. "7" 33 .
nll-ly
QO TO THE
Post Office Book Store,
H. J. STBEIGHT, Proprietor,
rou toi
Boob. Stationery, Pictures, Music.
TOYS, CONFECTIONERY,
Violin Strings
Newspapers, Norels,
Song Books, etc., etc
I'OST OFFICE BUILDIXJ,
PLATTSMOUTH, NEB,
WALLPAPER.
AllPaper Trimmed Free ofCIane
ALSO, DEALER VX
Books, Stationery
MAGAZINES
AND LATEST PUBLICATIONS.
J"?y Prescriptions carefully componuded by an
experienced Drnrrlt 1
BE MEMBER THE PLACE
Cor. Fifth and Main Streets,
PLATTSMOUTn, NEB.
THOS. W. SHRYOCK,
DEALER in
JJ'iar-nitin.r e !
Main St., bet. 5th and 6th,
PliATTSMOtTTH, - NEB.
ALSO
UITDEETAKEE,
Ard Ias on band a large stock of
2vIetallio Uurial Cases,
Wooden Coffins, Etc.,
Of all sizes, cheap for cash.
Funerals Attended on Short Notice
II. .1. WJTEPM & SOX,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer, in
PINE LUMBER,
Lafcn, Sliing-les.
SASH, DOOES, BLINDS, ETC.,
On riain St., cor. Fifth,
PL ATT S. MOUTH, - - - NEB.
FOR YOUR GROCERIES
GO TO
J.V.WEGKBACH
Cor. Third and Main St., riattsmoutb.
(Outhmann's old stand.)
He keeps on hand a large and well-selected
stock of
Fancy Groceries,
COFFEES, TEAS,
Sugar, Six-xx TP,
ETC., ETC.,
Also a Large Stock of
DRY GOODS
Boots and Shoes,
C It 0C KE It Y, QUEENS WARE,
Etc., Etc., Etc.
In connection with the Grocery is a
BAKERY and CONFECTIONERY.
Highest Price Paid ,r.r Country Prodnre.
A full stock at all times, and will not be undersold.
Take notice of the Sign:
" EMPIRE BAKERY AND GROCERY."
nlyl
WILLIAM STADELMANN
Hat on hand on of tat largest stocks of
CLOTHING
Gents' Furnishing Goods
FOR SPRING AND "XMMER.
I invite everybody in n ant of anything in my
lino to call at bij siure.
South Side Main, bet. 5th & 6th Sts.,
And cootIhcc tbemselrei of tba fact. I hare aa a
rneciaity in my Retail Departments a stock of
Fine Clothinj for Men and Boya, t which we in
vite thoso wb n tul -ood.
I also keep on band a Urge and well-selected
Hock ef
Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, Etc.
larlyl
PLATTSSIOUTII MILLS,
rIATTSMOCTH NEBRASKA.
Cos had Hiisil, Proprietor.
FLOUR, CORN MEAL, FEED,
tlways n band and for sale at lowest cash priors.
The Highest Prices paid for Wheat and Corn,
Particular attention iriren to ctutom wrk.
PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1875.
NUMBER 28.
THE HERALD.
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in advance.
Extra roplca of the IIkhai.i for sale ly II. J.
Stn iflit. nt the J'ostoinre, and O. F. Jo!.Iiou, cor
licr nf Main and Kiftli .iri.ui..
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Kx-Sknatou Sciu rz delivered a politi
cal liard-money speech at Cincinnati on
the 27th.
The Anglo-American Telegraph Com
pany have raised their tariff to one dollar
in gold per. word.
Rev. II. C. Tiltox has declined the
nomination for Governor of Wisconsin on
the Temperance ticket.
Geo. W. Gage, n prominent citizen and
well-known former hotel proprietor ot
Chicago, died a few days ago, aged M.vty.
three years.
Pkesidest Grant has recently uis
osed at auction of his blooded stock on
his farm near St. Louis. Exceedingly
low prices were realized,
The Board of Education of Chicago
have recently abolished the reading of the
Scriptures and repeating of the Lord's
Prayer in the public schools of the city
C. II. Ham, of the Intcr-Ocenn, has been
removed from the office of United States
Appraiser of Merchandise at Chicago, and
li. C. Feldkamp has beeri appointed as his
successor.
The Rev. Dr. George B. Porteus, late
pastor of All-Souls' Church, Brookljn, X.
Y., was recently drowned in Long Island
Sound by the capsizing of a boat in which
he was riding.
The first Synod of the Reformed Epis
copal Church has been organized in Chi
cago with the Rev. Charles E. Cheney as
Bishop. The organization is to be known
as the Synod of Chicago.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
given directions for the retirement of
$304,584 of outstanding legal-tenders, that
aniDunt being 80 per cent, of the National
Bank circulation issued during the past
month. Until further orders the outstand
ing legal-tenders will be $:73,!4 1,124.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
President Grant has accepted the
resignation of Secretary Delano, to take
effect Oct. 1. The letter of resignation is
dated July 5, and the PresideKt's letter of
acceptance Sept. 22. The President ex
presses his belief that 31r. Delano has
filled every public trust confided to him
with ability and integrity.
A Bona pa r ti st council has been re
cently held at Arenberg, Switzerland, at
the chateau of the ex-Empress Eugenie,
at which it was resolved that the Empress,
who was unpopular in France because of
her pronounced ultramontanism, should
resign the regency, and that the Prince
Imperial, guided by M. Rouher, should
have supreme direction of aflairs.
According to the recenllj-.published
annual report of the Government Directors
of the Union Pacific Railroad, the cross
receipts of the road during the year end
ing July 1, 1875, were $11,522,021, an in
crease over the previous year ol ?l,2io,
3G!); increase in net earnings during same
time, $1,570,424; operating expenses, $4,-
788,030.
The report of the board appointed to in
vestigate the Chicago Custom-IIouse
building has been made public and is to
the effect that some of the material used
in the structure so far should lie rejected
and some other modifications made in the
work, and that then the structure may
safely be proceeded with. The Secretary
of the Treasury indorses the report, and
work on the building is to be resumed in
the spring in accordance with the sug
gestions made by the commission.
TnE report for August and September
of the Agricultural Department gives the
condition of wheat harvested for all the
States as 79 per cent, in quality poorer
than for several years. The oat crop is
superior in quantity and quality, and
mostly secured in good condition. Of
barley the average for the country is 85.
Potatoes are 10 per cent, above the aver
age. The wool crop is full average weight
or little above in nearly all the States. To
bacco has fallen 10 per cent, below an av
erage. Hops .New iork and lscon
sin, which together produced from three
fourths to four-fifths of the entire crop.
have largely increased their acreage.
Mr. and Mrs. JonN McCormick, of
Newark, N. J., went from home the other
day and left their three children twins
of five j-ears and a three-year-old to keep
house. The fire went out, and the little
housekeepers set about rekindling it.
They replenished the stove with wood,
poured kerosene on it in the usual way,
and applied a match. The top of the
stove was immediately blown off and the
children were enveloped in flames. Some
of the neighbors got badlv burned help
ing the little sufferers. When the parents
came back, an hour or two afterward, they
had two children fewer in the house, one
of the twins and the youngest child being
blackened corpses.
The 3Iassachusetts Repulbican State
Convention met at Worcester on the 20th
ult., and Vice-President Wilson was
chosen to preside. Alexander II. Rice
was nominated on the third ballot for
Governor, receiving 570 out of 908 votes.
The rest of the ticket is as follows : For
Lieutena'nt-Governor, Horatio G. Knight;
State Treasurer, Charles Endicott ; Auditor,
Julius L. Clark; Attorney-General, Cha1
R. Train ; Secretary of State, HenrVB. t(
Pierce. The platform adopted favors a
speedy return to specie payments and
declares against inflation; opposes the
continuing in office of a Presidential in
cumbent for more than two terms : eulo
gizes President Grant for the independence,
courage and good sense manifested by him
in the discharge of his duties as Presi
dent, and expresses an earnest desire that
the people of the South " may enjoy to
the fullest extent those inestimable bless
ings to which we all owe our prosperity
universal free education and security of
personal righU under local telf-govern-ment
without the necessity of any interfer
ence from abroad."
A cigar manufacturer has entered the
political field in Dubuque as a candidate
for Alderman. He is said to have some
Vf-rv Stroni? 'blickf-rs. .'Win Turk (Inrnmrr.
eial Ad cert iter. And his friends are puf
fing him a good deal, we suppose. AYw
tlaren Journal. And hell take the
stump," of course. Jiostu Post. But
his opponents say he won't Havanachance
for election. Chicago I'imes.
A Berlin special of the 25th says the
Sublime Porte had declined to make any
concession to the insurgents until they
had made a full and complete submission
A Constantinople dispatch rf the fame
uste Bays the Consular mediation had
failed.
James W. Shell was lynched at Belle
fontaine, Ohio, on the niffht of the 23d
for the murder of a young girl named
Allie Laughiin, the daughter of a re
spectable farmer. The wife of Shell testi
fied before the Coroner's jury that he had
previously made threats against the per
son and life of the girl, and that at the
time of the perpetration of the crime they
were all three out riding together, when
her husband went away with Allie into
the woods and returned in about two hours
and told her (his wife) that he had killed
the girl after a desperate struggle, and
that he would murder witness should she
divulge the crime. Before being hanged
Shell protested his innocence of the crime
and aocuscd his wife of the murder, lie-
caused of her alleged jealousy of the girl
Other atrocious crimes are attributed U
him. Mrs. Shell was lodged in jailat
Bellefontaine on the 25th, as an acVbm
plice, she having confessed to a prjrVious
knowledge of her husband's intention to
commit the horrible outrage and murder.
Meetings of a number of clergymen and
business men of Chicago have recently
been held and committees appointed to
take preliminary steps toward inaugurat
ing a great religious revival this fall and
coming winter. Efforts are to be made to
secure the personal attendance and serv
ices of Messrs. Moody and Sankey, but in
any event a revival is determined on. One
report has it that Moody and Sankey are
to remain and prosecute their religious
labors in New York city.
It is stated that prominent Carlists and
the Carlist committees in foreign lands
have recently endeavored to persuade Don
Carlos to abandon the struggle and give
in his adhesion to King Alphonso.
A Burlington (Iowa) dispatch on the
27th reports a serious accident as having
occurred on the Burlington & Missouri
Railroad, near Woodburn. Three passenger-cars
were thrown from the track and
one passenger was killed and almut thirty
others were injured.
A Vienna special of the 2Sth states that
the Porte had addressed a circular to for
eign powers stating a conflict was inevita
ble if Montenegro and Scrvia continued
their perpetual violations of neutrality. A
Ragusa dispatch of the same date says the
towns of Debrossels, Krushawag, Tschop
lina, Struke and Ljubuschka, near the
Dalmatian frontier, had joined in the in
surrection, and that the Turks had retired
in the direction of Stolatse.
A recent Madrid, telegram says per
sonal differences had arisen between the
Carlist lenders which Don Carlos himself
had been unable to reconcile. Gamande
had been defeated in Catalonia. Don
Carlos had dismissed Gen. Saballs from
his command.
By a destructive flood in the valley of
the Lee, Ireland, on the 27th a portion of
the eountrj- immediately around Cork was
inundated and immense damage was done
to property.
The fiftieth anniversary of the estab
lishment of steam passenger railways was
celebrated at Darlington, England, on
the 27th, many thousand people partici
pating. The Lord Mayor of London and
other notable persons were present. The
ceremony of unveiling a bronze statue of
Edward Pease, the constructor of the Dar
lington fc Stockton Road, was performed
by the Duke of Cleveland.
Considerable excitement was caused
at Fall River, Mass., on the 27th and 28th
by demonstrations on the part of mill
operatives in opposition to demands made
upon them by their employers. The
manufacturers had determined to require
the workmen to sign an agreement to
sever their connection with any labor
union and not to leave work without giv
ing ten days' notice, and then in num
bers not to exceed one-eighth of the
working force employed, etc. Large
numbers of the operatives refused
to comply with this demand and
were refused work, and immediate
steps were taken by them to per
suade or compel other workmen to join
their ranks. Threats were made against
the mill-owners and working operatives.
and serious trouble Wiis so imminent that
the Mayor of the city was compelled to
take active measures and call for the
militia to guard against a general out
break. A meeting of Labor-Reformers
was held in Boston on the 28th and reso
lutions of sympathy with the Fall River
operatives were adopted.
TnE testimony of the seven-year-old
daughter of James Shell the man lynched
at Bellefontaine, Ohio was given before
the Coroner's jury at Belle Center on the
28th, and was of so damaging a character
to her mother as to cause a renewal of the
excitement, and threats of another lynch
ing were general. The Sheriff of the
county accordingly removed Mrs. Shell
from the jail and, it was believed, took
her to Marysville. The conviction that
Mrs. Shell was at least a party to the
murder of Allie Laughiin was becoming
settled.
A dispatch from the Red Cloud Agency,
dated Sept. 27, states that the threatened
utbreak on the part of the Indians in at
tendance upon the council had passed
over without any person being hurt.
Speeches were made on the 27th by sev
eral lndian chiefs, one of whom desired
a wagon, horses, cattle and a gun and am
munition for each Indian before talking
on the Black Hills question. "Spotted
Bear" thought about seventy million dol
lars would be a fair equivalent for the
Black Hills country. It was thought no
treaty with the Indians could lie effected.
It was reported on the 29th ult. that
the Turks had crossed the Servian frontier
despite the protest of Servia.
It is said the Herzegovinian insurgents
have refused to treal with the Porte direct
ly in any case. They insist that a Eu
ropean commission delegated by the
powers shall make and guarantee a treaty.
TnE latest retarns received in Londun
up to the 20th ult. showed that in East
Sussex there were 5,202 beasts affected by
the cattle plague; in Gloucester, 12,000;
in Warwickshire, 8,000; in Cumberland,
7,500, and in Westmoreland, 400. York
shire showed a larire increase.
uTuding
A railway train was thrown from the
track near Sorel, Canada, on the evening
of the 28th ult., and eleven men were
killed and twenty-five wounded.
A San Francisco dispatch of the 20th
ult. stated that the reorganized Bank ot
California would resume business on the
3d of October trull $3,000,000 of gold in
the vaults.
The Society of the Army of the Ten
nessee met in annual session nt Des
Moine, Iowa, On the 2l)th ult. President
Grant. Gen. Sherman and other distin-,
guished military men were in attend
The old officers were re-elected, l
Gen. W. T. Sherman as PrcsU)nt. Presi
dent Grant made a soiuypwhat lengthy
speech. Several olherafieeches were also
delivered, mid IMiiiiKU-lphia was agreed
upon ashe placeu meeting next year.
A recent fadrid telegram says the
Carlist hadjieen forced to raise the siege
of San Sebastian and had retired toTolosa.
Qciet prevailed at Fall River, Mass.,
on the.JOth ult., and no turtner set
trouble was anticipated, although tl
intfitia.was still on duty. Many ot the
operatives had resumed work, and all the
rnills were running.
A Red Clocd Agency dispatch of the
30th ult. says the commissioners had
about given up all hope of consummating
a treaty, but had submitted a new propo
sition to the Indians, offering $400,000 per
annum for the right to mine, raise stock
and cultivate the soil in the Black Hills
country ; ''or to purchase the country for
$6,000,000, in fifteen equal annual install
ments; also offering to purchase the Big
Horn country in Wyoming for $50,000 an
nually for ten years $50,000 in addition
to the ijbove to be distributed in presents
among the Indians.
The Commissioners of the Fi'cedman's
Savings and Trust Company, in Washing
ton, announce that thc3r will commence,
on the 1st of November, paying a div idend
of 20 per cent, on all audited claims.
A counterfeit ten-dollar bill on one of
the National Banks of Cincinnati has
made its appearance in Chicago. The
Tribune says it is pronounced b experts
to be almost perfect, with the exception of
the lower left-hand corner of the back of
the note, which is much blurred.
neither the State nor the nation, nor both
combined, shall support institutions of
learning other than those sufficient to af
ford to every child growing up in the land
the opportunity of a good common-school
education, unmixed with sectarian, pagan,
or atheistical. Leave the matter of religion
to the family altar, the church and the
private school supported entirely by pri
vate contributions, and keep the church
and the State forever separate. With these
safeguards I believe the battles w hich env
ated the Army of the Tennessee will not
haVe been fought in vain.1'
The Texas Floods
THE MARKETS.
1S75.
October 2.
NEW YOhK.
Live Stock. Reef C'attle-f 9 5013.lJVi. Hog.'
Live, $8.i0&3.75. Sheep Live, $ 1.25. 121
BREADSTcrFs. Flour Good to choice, $ii.0:
6.50; white wheat extra, $;.r(37.:55. Wheat No.
3 Chicago, $1.34rtJ1.2ti; No. 3 Northwestern,
$1.341.26; No. 2 Milwaukee i"rlng, $1.2t;&
13). Rye Western and State, 8S!t.c. Bar
lev 1.16. 20. Corn Mixed Western, C8!-&
2VJC Oats Mixed Western, 4:ii&V!ic.
Provisions. Pork Mes, $31.87 ilvi 2.-5. Lard
Prime Steam, 13-iai3?c Cheese 6142.12' Jc.
Wool. Domestic Fleece, 43iu,6 .c.
CHICAGO.
Live Stock. Beeves Choice, $ ."i.75fi.O0 ;
good, $5.(XS",-50; medium, S -''; bntch
era' stock, (2.503.75; stock cattle, $2.7'f&
4.0). lion's Live, $8..58.50. SheepGood to
choice, $4 25 1.7).
Provisions. Butter Choice, 2C3!c. E,rs;s
Fresh, 18&10c Pork Mess, $22.8323.00.
Lard 513.62'J 213.63.
Breadstufps. Flour White Winter Extra,
S5.757.50; spring extra, fS.lilJ'SS.Ot. Wheat
SDrincr. No. 2. S1.12ai.l2'i. Corn No. 2,55
S55'4c. Oats No. 2. 34v4M?ic Rye No. 2,
7m-72c. Barley No. 2, $1.011.0.'.
Lumber. First Clear," $11.0045.00; Second
Clear, $ 13.0034 .C0; Common Boards, $10.00
11.00; Fencing, $10.00 fj.11.00; "A" Shingles.
;2.50a---90; Latti, $1.TE3.C0.
EAST LIBERT V.
Live Stock Beeves Best, f ii.:JC.0.70; me
dium, $500(3.5.50 Hogs Yorkers, $7.!)(28.50;
Philadelphias, $'.).2 9.- 0. Sheep Best, $5.25
0; medium, $1.755.00.
resident Grant at Des 3IoInes.
At the recent meeting at Des Moines,
Iowa, of the Society of the Army of the
Tennessee, loud calls were made for Presi
dent Grant. After a few humorous re
marks in reference to the calls for himself
and Gen. Sherman, in which he said it
had been customary at the reunions of
the army to call upon him just because
he always made the shortest speech, the
President said he had concluded to disap
point them this time, anil he had, there
lore, jotted down what he wished to say,
when he read as follow s :
" Comrades It always affords me
much gratification to meet my comrades
in arms of ten and fourteen years ago, to
tell oyer again the trials and hardships of
those ' days hardships imposed for the
preservation and perpetuation of our free
institutions. We believed then, and we
believe now, that we have a Government
worth fighting for and, if need be, dying
for. How many of our comrades
paid the latter price for our pre
served Union! Let their heroism
and sacrifice be ever green in our
memory ; let not the results of their sac
rifice be destroyed. The Union and the
free institutions for which they fell should
be held more dear for their sacrifices. We
will not deny to any of those who fought
against us any privilege under the Gov
ernment which, we claim for ourselves.
On the contrary, we welcome all such who
come forward in good faith to help build
up the waste places and to perpetuate our
institutions against all enemies as broth
ers in full interest with us in a common
heritage; but we are not prepared to apol
ogize for the part we took in the war. It
is to be hopeil that the like trials will
never again befall our country. In their
settlement no class of people can more
heartily join than the soldier who sub
mitted to the dangers, trials and hardships
of the camp and the battle-field, on which
ever side he may have fought. No class
of people are more interested in guarding
against a recurrence of those days. Let
us, then, begin by guarding against every
enemy to the prosperity of free republican
institutions.
" I do not bring into this assemblage
politics, certainly not partisan politics,
but it is a fair subject for the soldiers in
their deliberations to consider what may
be necesary to secure the prize for which
they battled. In a Iiepublic like ours,
where the citizen is the sovereign and the
official the servant, where no power is ex
ercised except by the will of the people, it
is important that the sovereign people
should foster education and promote that
intelligence which is to preserve us as a
free nation. If we are to have another
contest in the near future of our national
existence I predict that the dividing line
will not be Mason and Dixon's, but be
tween patriotism and intelligence on the
one side and superstition, ambition and
ignorance on the other.
' Now, the centennial year of our na
tional existence, I believe is a good time
to begin the work of strengthening the
foundations of the structure commenced
by our patriotic forefathers 100 years
ago at Lexington. Let us all labor
to add all needful guarantees for the
greater security of free thought, free
speech, a free press, pure morals, unfet
tered religions sentiments, and of equal
rights andirivileges to all men, irrespect
ive of nationality, color or religion; en
courage free schools and resolve that not
one dollar of money appropriated to their
support shall be appropriated to the sup
port of any sectarian school ; resolve that
The New Orleans EuHftin of Sept. 23
gives the following particulars of the ter
rible effects of the inundation nt Indian
ola! Thursday at ten a m. the wind was
blowing fearfully, the water still coming"
in higher, and in two hours rose six feet,
submerging most of the town. The alarm
spread iike w ildfire. Those w ho had boats
were plying about in the waves taking
women "and children to places of fancied
security. Families were sent up to the
highest portions of the dwellings, house
hold goods were confusedly hurried into
:arr-ls and the whole town was one scene
terror.
icre were no means ot leaving tne
n and so all had to secure themselves
as it they coukl. Jimnigni inursuay a
heavW-uricnt set in, running through the
town", KVdthcn commenced the dull cra.-h
on all siaexof falling houses. The water
by this timehnd reached a point covering
the whole placc'Tvjly six feet.
Looking out, nothing could be seen ex
cept housetops and the while foam on the
heavy rollers. With every crash, above
the screaming of the wind and the roar of
4the waters, could be heard the wail of
despair from drowning women and chil
dren. Frantically clinging to the remnants of
the wrecks, mothers with children in their
ai ms vainly implored for help w hen all
around were unable to render any. The
scene beggared description. Strong men,
overcome with emotion, wept like chil
dren, and some . van ted to rush forth to
certain death rather than suffer to see the
victims perishing before their eyes whilst
they were powerless to render assistance.
Not an c3-e was closed that night in
Indianola. The loud splash and cracking
of timbers proclaimed another house gone
and the sound was echoed by piercing
screams.
About dayliirht Friday morning the
wind lulled and the water fell as rapidly
as it nan risen, anu oy noon u was possi
ble for people to get about in the higher
portions ot the town.
me seventy ot the damage uone was
then fully appreciated. Not a house in
the place but showed evidence of
the gale. Squares completely vacant.
stores and houses having been carried off
by the current, leaving only the founda
tion to mark the spot where once they
stood.
As soon as the citizens were able to get
out they set to work relieving those still
in peril, those confined in the upper
stories ot the dangerous buildings were
taken out and the corpses caurht by fall
ing timbers removed. It was a sad work,
and nobly did the people respond to the
call for duty. It was then that the most
heart-rending scenes were met. Here a
little girl, almost nude, wading in the
water in search of father, mother and sis
ters, whose bodies lay bleaching on the
sand, miles distant; there, old men, pale
with emotion, looked for their grandchil
dren whose prattling voices were forever
stilled by the treacherous waters.
No pen could portray the sad picture of
1 nuay at Jnuianola. A town ot ;i,000 in
habitants under water for twelve hours,
w ith 250 of their number suddenly strick
en down, could not but tear-stain the pa
pet and make the hand ot" the chronicler
tremble. a?
Up to Monday evening last ninety
bodies had been recovered and given
Christian burial. As there were no coffins'
h it after the storm in Indianola, friends
of the deceased were forced to devise from
dry-goods boxes, in fact, from everything,
a covering for those wffo died. Fathers
bore to their last resting-place the flowers
of their family Hock, and alone buried
those who were dearer b them than life
it.-clf; husbands laid away beneath the
sands the remains of wives, children and
fathers.
Singular to say, most of the bodies were
not found in the town. The tremendous
current swept even many of those who
were caught beneath fallen buildings, and
carried them back to the lake in the rear
of Indianola. Along the shores of this
could be seen, protruding through the
sand, almost buried, the arms or heads of
the victims. It was next to impossible to
recognize a single one.
fhe action of the waters and waves had
been such as in cases to completely be
head the drowned. The last remnant of
clothing was torn from them, and only in
cases where a bracelet or finger-ring re
mained could friends identify the lost. It
would seem almost as though the demon
of cruelty had been at work. Headless
trunks, armless bodies, all were scattered
about on the beach, memorials of the
storm's dreadful work.
FACTS AXD FIGURES.
During the first fortnight of the new-
season the tea exports from Hankow were
24,000,000 pounds.
TnE manufacturers say that 1,950,000,-
000 tooth-picks are daily chewed by Amer
ican food-consumers.
Tre McGregor Timss says that the
largest raft of lumber that ever floated
down the Mississippi passed that point a
few days ago. It contained over 3,000,000
feet.
The number of marriages celebrated in
Paris during the last five years shows a
marked increase for 1ST2, 1873 and 1874.
In 170 and 1871 the war naturally caused
a .diminution. In the tormer year tue
numlier during the twelve months was
12,21)8. In 1872, however, despite the fact
that the war and the Commune had re
duced the population by 250,000 inhab
itants, the marriage total rose to 21,373;
in 1873, 10,520 unions occurred, and last
year 18,827.
'Ihe famous Uedfora cow, owned ny
Edward French, of Massachusetts, has the
following record lor a year, beginning
Mav 1, 1874: For the first hundred days a
yield of 2,404 quarts; second hundred,
l,sll2 quarts; third hundred, 1.3'J3;i
quarts; sixty-nve days, 02 quarts; a total
of 0,020 quarts, which weighed seven tons
and 44-j pounds, r or several davs she
yielded 2'J1 j quarts in twenty-four hours,
and lor seven ty-nve days running gave
over 20 quarts. The cow weighed 1,055
pounds.
The annual report of the United States
Malsters' Association, just published,
shows the number of malt-houses in the
country to le 310, with a capacity of 10,
000,000 bushels, costing over $10,000,000;
employing 1,100 hands, and nsing a cap
ital ot $ 13,UOU,)W. ihe uanadian barley
crop this year is above the average, and
the acreage sown is much larger Uian in
1S74. Thcv expect to be able to export
over 6,000.000 bushels. On this side o
the border, with the exception of New-
York, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minne
sota, the crop is in the aggregate of some
what inferior quality, and not aiiove an
average in quantity. Iowa, Illinois, Kan
sas, Nebraska, Missouri, Indiana and
Ohio have in the aggregate a poor crop.
The yield in Kentucky, Tennessee and
Southern Indiana will be about three-
fifths in quantity. The California crop is
estimated at 4,000,000 Lushtls, of which
2,000.000 can be spared for export
liY M'CY I.AltrO-tf.
The old barn window, John,
Io 3-ou remember it ?
How just above it, on t lie beam,
The tame doves used to sit;
And how we wutched Hi.: sunshine stream
Through motes and gossamer,
When down they fluttered, John,
With such breezy whirr?
I think the sunset.o, Joint,
Arc seldom now as red ;
They ued to linger like a crown
Up n your auburn head,
From the high hity-loft looking down
To tell me of the nest
The white hen hid there, John
The whole brood's handsomest!
Those times were pleasant, John,
When we were boy and Rli"'.
Though modern young folks style them
"slow";
Alack! a glddv whirl
The poor old world is spinning now,
To 6top, who giiesses when?
Be thankful wilh tne. John,
That we were children then!
Have you forgotten, John,
That Wednesday afternoon
When the great doors were opened wide
And all the scetit3 of June
Came in to greet us, side by side,
Iu the high-seated swing,
Where flocks of swallows, John,
FSnncd us with startled wing?
Up to the barn-eaves, John,
We swung, two happy things,
At home and careless in the air
As if we both had wings;
The mountain sides lay far and fair
Beyond the blue stream's shore;
I cried: " Swing higher, John!"
And fell upon the floor!
Next time I saw you, John,
You stood beside my bed ;
Tears trembled in your clear boy-glance,
I thought that I was dead.
But felt ni childish pulses dance
To be beside j-ou still:
I lived to love you, John,"
As to the end I will!
We swing no longer, John,
We sit at our own door
And watch the shadows on the hill,
The sunshiue on the shore;
But the window in the barn is still
A magic glass to me.
For through it cobwebs, John,
Our childhood's days I 6ee!
SE'SE AND NOJiSENSE.
A FLOURisniNO business Ornamental
penmanship.
Bakers are a crusty lot of fellows and
great loaf-ers.
There are no men more given to rie
than carpenters.
The world's admiration of genius too
often begins at the grave.
" Golden opinions" are not convert
ible coins, though they are easily
changed.
Striped kid gloves, which make your
hand look as hideous as asnake'sskin, arc
in fashion.
Tennessee, where $300,000 w as paid
this year for dog licenses, must be the
happy land of canine.
The postal-card factory at Springfield,
Mass., is now making postal card. oi
the new pattern at the rate of 000,000 a
day.
The man of much property may be as
hard up as a beggar in pocket. It is the
man ot immediate cash w ho is rich in this
world.
If you wish to make a bitter enemy
offer to be of assistance to a man in
difficulties, and then help him. Ex
change. Wheat-fields in the neighborhood of
Newbcm, N. C, remain un reaped on ac
count of the innumerable rattlesnakes
therein.
It is best to bear in mind that, however
generous a person may be, and whatever
lie may give away, he should always keep
his temper.
It is a noticeable fact that of all the per
sons saved by Ida Lewis not one is a wom
an. We don't know that this is signifi
cant, but it is the fact.
Sam Music has been arrested for murder
in Illinois. He can plead self-defense
so many people have murdered psalm
music. Boston Globe.
Women can't vote in England, but most
any sort of a woman over there can get
most any amount of damages from a man
w ho agreed to marry her and then backs
out.
When at a trial match of sausage-making
machines in Cincinnati one of them
amputated the hand of its exhibitor, a
heartless bystander remarked that it took
the palm.
" You never saw my hands as dirty as
that," said a mother reproachfully to her
little eight-year-old girl. " 'Cause I never
seen 3011 when you was a little girl," was
the prompt reply.
The total expenses for running the New
Haven public schools last year were $157,-
055. There are 211 teachers (twenty-five
men) and 11,405 pupils in the schools, anil
the average attendance was 7,505.
During a recent thunder storm, as a
young lady living in St. John, N. B-, was
seated at her sewing-macuine, tue instru
ment was struck bv lightning, and both
the operator's arms were partly paralyzed.
Rhode Island has rifle association, or
which Gen. Burnside is President. Lnless
thev can obtain permission to put up a
target in a neighboring State the shooting
w ill have to be at a very short range.
It is hard to believe, but the proofs are
convincing, that a Chicago gin recently
wanted to marry a burglar, in order, as she
expressed it, " 10 nave a sou unng in
making some kind of a show at silver
weddings."
A Tennessee woman banged herself
the other day while her husband was at
church, thecause of her suicide iitingthat.
this exemplary gentleman had KtrucK her
just before departingto attend to his relig
ious duties.
Don't be particular about addressing
your letters plainly, as every misdirected
letter adds directly to the income of the
Government. The waste paper from the
Dead-Letter Office yields an income of over
$4,000 a year.
One bv one our cherished domestic pos
sessions fall victims to the hand of disease.
First, marble-top tables were declared un
healthy, and now a St. Louis man finds
germs 01 consumption in me inenuiy
mosquito-bar.
It is announced that string-beans cured
a ermont woman wno nati wen sick ir
five years, and w hose case had been deemed
hopeless, and the public nose will no
longer be turned up in contempt at cheap
garden-sauce.
The telegraph states that the Servian
skupochtiina" has replied to Prince
Milan's speech, but doesn't state whether
the "skupochtijna" is best w ith Worces
tershire sauce or is itself only some
kind of a dressing.
Where one man will confess that he
. . -I. 1 1.1
can hoe potatoes ion win tKnui:
that their forte is writing poetry. And
vet the former occupation is just as honor
able as the latter, and a great deal more
remunerative, usually.
Westekvelt wept when they pro
nounced him guilty, and joor Mr.
Ross wept that the whereabouts of his
little lniy had not been revealed. Surely
the innocent and guilty of this world are
ever weeping together.
Nebraska paper credits Bvron with
having written "There's a divinity which
shapes our ends, rough hew them as we
may." But we still rough-hews to be
lieve that they were penned by any-one
but Shakespeare. Uhicugv Tinus.
John Henry's wife wrote to him in
mosqtiitotihic that hc had " fifteen bite ;'
and. as sin; forgot to cro- her t, John went
raging round like a ravin-: lunatic He
didn't cire so touch about Ik t h;iing
"bile?" u-i he did .-lb. nit h-r pcl ling Ym
so.
I r humiliate a nrui nml iii:ike him feel
like a mri'ii, fri ndl' ss ouli il t letvc Ii'm
c.-ine e.-iteh i:i liie sidewalk and throw him
head over heels before a d r:cpo' piclty
young ladi-s w ho liner audi lily a he pick-
hiinsi If up and grpe in t!n' gitlliTfor hi-
hat.
A heap wind A sneerc h'.ir'nnif'.
Thal's-nee.y one F.verybody nose lint.
ll.-fon A'lro tisfi: Whieh si vh- o cuii
inent is, of eoiire, iiiteiid"d ! provoke
from all quarter a " t i -d 1 - - h a ." ' of liiHit
falsehoods oil the subject.--St. I.ouin Hit
l'4! 'ii'an.
The headlines iu a New Orleans p iper
over a sliooling cae are: "Infelicity of
Married l.il A Woman Shoots Her H11-;-ban.l
nml Hide- the 1 i -t . -1 . A woman
who w ill shoot her hub ni I is b id 1 n n 1 1 1 ,
but a woman who will deliberately hide H
pistol is an unrcgencrate nnii-tcr.
Grand L aki-, M iddle "(dorado, is the
subject of u legend.' Tin legend is that,
forty years ago, on the ground at the out
let, "there was a great battle fought wherein
the Cheyenne1 and Arapahocs pressed the
L'tes hard on to the water, who, with
women and children, took rafts made of
logs fastened together with lb. nigs of hide.
An untimely wind runic mil of the west,
making a raging mm over rait and l't
010 of whom "sank into its depths with
bubbling groan." The singular fact that
the bodies never ro.e inspired I lie worst
terrors of savage supers! ii ion. It is held
that their spirits haunt 'die lake. The
present lake, residents tell of a w hile man
drowned llrere four years ago, w hose body
never rose. Each day for nine days after
the dread event a man wnlhcd around Ihe
lake, but the body was not seen, nor has
since been seen. Sensitive visitors who
hear the story shudder as they say: "I
would not like to be drowned in Grand
Lake."
Review of Hie Charlie Rows Mystery.
It isnow inorcthan a year since the Ross
child was stolen from his parents at Phil
adelphia. The killing of the abductors,
.Mosher and Doupla-s, while engaged in a
burglary at Bay Ridge, removed from the
field the miscreants w ho, up to that 1110.
ment, had been carrying on negotiations
for the ransom of the captive child. And
the death of these men brought to public
view much of the information which the
police at that time had in jMissession, but
which had been kept as private as possi
ble while the child stealers were alive and
within reach. The arrest of Weslervclt,
brother-in-law and familiar friend of
Mosher, for alleged complicity in the ab
duction has resulted iu bringing out on
his trial most of the details of the crime,
except those which lead directly to the
final disposition of the child. These, as
unraveled 111 tne trial 01 ncsiciveii. m
Philadelphia, reveal the conception and
execution of a crime w hose boldness and
atrocity are uncommon, if not quite un
precedented, 111 this country.
It appears tint alter the child had been
taken from Philadelphia negotiations
were at once opened with the father by
means of mysterious letters nnd adver
tisements in the newspapers. From these
letters, now for the first lime made public,
we see that the kidnapers assumed aTxild
position. It was intended to persuade the
Ross family that the nlidiictors were a
band of tremendous fellows, whose plans
were deep and secret, whose hiding place
was impregnable, whose machinery was
vast and subtle, and whose vengeance w as
swift and sudden. The letters were also
designed to mislead the searchers as far
as possible. There is no reason to mii
pose that Mosher would tell .Mr. Ross that
the boy had been disguised by cutting oil'
his hair and putting him into girl's
clothes even if the transformation had
been made. The fact that such a story
was told by the kidnapers would imply,
to a shrewd detective, that nothing of the
kind had been done. Ry going or send
ing about the country the scoundrels suc
ceeded further in mystifying the distract
ed friends of the stolen child. They wi re
thus able to post letters at v arious differ
ent points, though it is noticeable that
none of these naming missives were
mailed from any very distant PostoJlirc, as
they might have been.
The ransom demanded for the child was
$20,010. The child-stealers intended to
go into this business extensively. They
wen; determined on large profits on their
ventures. For some reason they made an
error in their very first attempt. They be
lieved that Mr. Ross was a rich man one
to whom a ransom of $20,0)) for a favor
ite child would be a light sum. If Mr.
Ross had been as well able to pay the money
as the conspirators thought he was, they
would have speedily received the cash,
and it is quite likely that the business of
kidnaping would have flourished for a
season. The unhappy father could not at
once procure the money demanded ; mean
time the delay alarmed the robbers, who
ascribed it to an attempt to entrap them ;
the whole country was excited over the
monstrous crime, and the kidnapers drew
fuither and further away from all the ad
vances of parents, friends and pursuers.
This long delay mad'- it difficult, if-not
impossible, to conclude any arrangements
with the robbers by which the stolen child
should be restored. Mosher and his ac
complices were wary. The friends of the
child were distrustful of the good faith of the
abductors. Men whowould wantonly steal a
child and afterward trifle with a parent's
agony would not Mb k at pocketing the
ransom and then keeping up a demand
for more money bcfoie performing tin ir
part of an agreement which thcv had
dictated. It is bv no means certain that
they ever intended to return the child ; it
is not even certain if he was alive when
the latter negotiations were reached.
As we have said, although nearly all the
details are now laid bare the whereabouts
of Ihe child, from the time of his abduc
tion until now, remains a profound mys
tery. One witness tc-tilics, with po-itive-ncss
and clearness, that she saw Wester
velt, who was Moshor's relative and com
nan ion, with a child, July G, 1874, in a
Brooklyn street-car. It is now found that
that child resembled the lately-stolen
Charlie Ross; that he aj.peated to lie
afraid of his custodian, cried pitifully,
and w as sufficiently wretched in liisappcar?
anee to attract the attention of the w itness
and make a vivid impression on her mem
ory. It is not likely that Mosher nnd. .
Douglass ever kept the child near them
long at one time. They knew from
We'stcrvelt that they were atVast su-p r!cd
oftheirimc. They were in communica
tion w ith those who guarded the ly ; and
they were tain ful to have it understood
that their arrest woiii 1 at once be followed
by the sacrifice of the littie captive's life.
They blundered into sudden death, and
their Ferret remained with them. It is not
reasonable, to suppose that Wrstcrvclt,
whatever may have been his active guilt
in the matter, is in ignorance of the fate of
the stolen child. He undoubtedly know s
whether Charlie Ro-s is d-ad or alive. It
is most likely that he could, if lie cho-e,
surrender the clews by w hich the few re
maining details of the inf imous plot could
be cleared up. The afllic'.cd parents of
the missing child, feu il'-ring their proloiig-l
suspense, an agony beyond that of an ordi
nary bereavement, have the sympathy of
every generous nature. It is a matter lor
congratulation, however, that thousands
of homes are ma le more secure by t he
failure of an audaci usatkmpt toe-lablish
a trade of child-stealing. -V. 1'. Ti'nm.
m
Sunstroke ha: numbered few victims
during the present season.