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PLATTSMOUThT NEBRASKA.
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VOLUME XL
PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA- THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1875.
NUMBER 21).
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ner of Ataiu aud KifUi treta.
HENRY BCF
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ruLniture,
ange, Tables, Bedsteads,
Hk. BTO., BTO,
Of All Descriptions.
METALLIC BURIAL CASES.
r. i i
wooden Coffins
Of U ilzea, ready-made, and told cheap fer cut
With many thank for pt patronage, I tnrtt
U X call and xanu my
LARGB STOCK OF
ITiirnitiir and Cofllns.
AND
MEDICINES
AT
J. H. BUTTERY'S,
On Main Street, bet. Fifth and Sixth.
Wholesale aid Retail Dealer in
Drugs and medicines, Paints. Oils,
"Varnishes. Patent Medicines,
Toilet Articles, etc. etc.
nTTRESCRIPTIONS carefully compounded at
all hour, day and night. 35-1 y
J. W. SHANNON'S
Feed, Sale and Livery
Main Street, Plattsmouth, TJeb.
I am prepared to accommoi-( the public with
ZEISS,
Carriage?., Buggies, Wagons,
AND
A No. I Hearse,
On Short Notice and Reasonable Terms.
A HACK
Will Run to the Steamboat Land
ing, Depot, and all parts of
the City, when Desired.
Janl-tf
First National Bank
Of Plattsmouth, Nebraska,
erccsssoB to
Tootle, Iliiimrv Sz Clarlc.
foRH Fitzgerald
E. a. Dotet
A. W. McLauhlis...
John O'Kocm
President
Vice-President.
Cashier.
. . . Atitant Cashier.
This Bank is now open for business at their new
room, corner Main and Sixth streets, and are pre
pared to traDbacl a general
BANKING BUSINESS.
Stocks, Bords, Gold. Government
and Local Securities
BOUGHT AND SOLD.
Deposits Received and Interest Al
lowed on Time Certificates.
DBAPT8 DRAWN.
Available In any part of the United States and In
all the Yriucipal Towns aud Citiea of Eurupe.
AGENTS FOR THE
CELEBRATED
DHUN LINE ail ALLAH LINE
OTP STEA3IERS.
Tereona wiahlng to bring out their friend from
Europe can
rmriAsi ticket mo rs
Xliroujjli to Plattsmotitli.
Excelsior Barber Shop.
J. C- BOONE,
Main Street, opposite Saunders House.
HAIR-CUTTING,
Shaving and Shampooing.
ESPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO
Cutting Children's and Ladies'
Hair.
Call and Ses Boone, Gents,
And get a boon In a
pjl-ly
GO TO THE
Post Office Book Store,
H. J. STBEIGHT, Proprietor,
ro Totra
Bcols. Stationery, Pictures, Music.
TOYS. CONFECTIONERY,
Violin Strings.
Newspapers, Novels,
Song Books, etc., ets
POST OFFICE BUILDING
PLATTSMOUTH. NEB,
C. F. JOHNSON,
DEALER Uf
Drugs, Medicines,
4SD
WALL PAPER.
All Paper TrisMFree of Charge
ALSO. DEALER IN
Books, Stationery
31AGAZINES
AND LATEST PUBLICATIONS.
Mr Prtscrlpt'.one carefully eompoonded by an
experienced Drnryiat- ti
REMEMBER THE PLACE
Cor. Fifth and Main Streets,
PLATTSMOUTH, NEB.
THOS. W- HRYOCK,
DBALBB TK
IT arniture I
Main St., bet. 5th and 6th,
PLATTSMOUTH, - NEB.
UNDERTAKER,
And baa on hand a large stock of
letallio Burial Cases,
Wooden Coffins, Etc.,
Of all sizes, cheap for cash.
Funerals Attended on Short Notice
II. J. VATER1IM & SOX,
Wbolenale and Ketail Dealer In
PINE LUMBER,
Lath, Shingles,
SASH, DOORS, BLINDS, ETC.,
On Slain St., oor. Fifth,
PLA.TTSMOUTH, - - - TEB.
FOR YOUR CROCERIES
GO TO
J.V.WECKBACH
Cor. Third and JIaiu Sta., riattsmouth.
(Uuthniann's old Btand.) ,
lie keeps on hand a large and well-selected
6tock of
Fancy Groceries,
COFFEES, TEAS,
Sigar, Sirup,
ETC., ETC.,
Also a Large Stock of
DRY GOODS
Boots and Shoes,
CKOCKEltY, (JUEENS WAKE,
Etc., Etc., Etc.
In connection with the Grocery is a
BAKERY and CONFECTIONERY.
Hichest Price Paid Tor Country Produce.
A full etock at all times, and will not be undersold.
Take notice of the Sign:
" EMPIRE BAKERY AND GROCERY."
nlyl
WILLIAM STADELMANN
Haa hand ene ef (he largest stock! of
CLOTHING
AUD
Gents' Furnishing Goods
FOR SPRING AND SUMMER.
I inrite trrrjhotj in want of anything in my
line te call at ny store.
South Side Main, bet. 5th & 6th Sts.,
And conrinc thrnwlres of the fact. I have as a
pecia!T in my R-til Departments a stock of
Vine Clothing for Mrn and B.iys, ( which we 1b
Tite those wb want eeudi.
I also kef p en banil a large and well-selected
Itock ef
Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, Etc.
Jarlyl
PLATTSMOUTH MILLS,
rLATTSMOCTH NEBRASKA.
Coisas Hbisil, Proprietor.
FLOUR, CORN MEAL, FEED.
Ilways en hand and for sale at lowest casli prices.
The Highest Prices paid for Wheat and Cora.
Particalar attention iirea to custom werk.
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
The Massachusetts Prohibitionists bave
nominated John J. Baker for Governor
D. O. JIili-s haa been chosen President
of the Bank of California under the new
organization.
for
i hk receipts irom internal revenue
the fiscal year up to the 2d were -2i),.!
087, and from customs $44,42-VM.
Tun "Garden House," near "West
minster, England, valued with its con
tents at over $'2,500,000, has Lccn totally de.
ttroyed by'fire.
The celebrated trotter "American
Girl" dropped dead on the track while
trotting a race at Elniira, N. Y., on the 2d.
bhc was valued at !f:50,000.
The United States Assistant Treasurer
at New York Iiuh been directed to sell
$1,0(30,000 in gold on each Thursday of
the present month ?4,000,000 in all.
The jeaches sent by the steamer Cana
da from New York to London arrived at
the latter port on the 5th in good order,
and met with ready sale at large prices.
The New York Supreme Court has con
firmed the decision of the lower court de
nying the motion to vacate the order of ar.
rest on the $J,000,JOO suit against William
M. Tweed and ordering $3,000,000 bail.
The Sublime Porte of Turkey has de
creed that durirjg five years from Jan. 1,
IS tb, the interest on and the redemption
of the public ilebt will be paid one-half in
cash and the other half in 5 per cent,
bonds.
TKl" l.illa
have been found by the
Gradjury of the District of Columbia
painst Benjamin B. Ilalleck, "William II.
Ottman and T. "W. Brown for having been
concerned in the $47,000 robberj of the
United States Treasury.
The official canvass of the votes on the
New Jersey constitutional amendments
shows that all received a majority ot more
than 40,000 except the twelfth amendment,
known as the "Five-County act," which
received a majority of G.731.
At the recent session in Cincinnati of
the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of
America Very liev. Patrick Byrne, of
New Jersey, was chosen President and
James "W. O'Brien, of New York city,
Secretary of the society for the ensuing
year.
TnE United States Supreme Court has
recently decided, in the appealed St. Louis
Minor case, that the new amendments to
the National Constitution do not confer
the right of suffrage upon anyone, and
that the Constitution and laws of the sev
eral States which confine that right to men
alone are not necessarily void.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
The Secretary of the Treasury has given
notice that the principal and accrued in
terest of 5-20 bonds of the issue of June
30, 184, to the amount of $2,500,000, and
of registered bonds to the same amount,
will be paid at the Treasury at "Washing
ton on and after Jan. 1, 187(5, and that in
terest on said bonds will cease on that
day.
The Bank of California resumed opera
tions on the 2d, the opening of the doors
being loudly cheered by a large concourse
of people. Large amounts were deposited
in and drawn from the bank during the
day, the former exceeding the latter by
about $750,000. Announcement was
made that $7,930,000 had been subscribed
to meet the indebtedness and liabilities of
the bank and continue its business.
According to the ruling of the Poit
oflice Department, anything whatever,
except the address, printed or written
upon the sido of a postal-card intended
for the address renders such card unmail
able, and the same cannot be legally for
warded unless prepaid at the letter rate
three cents. But if by inadvertence it
reaches its destination without such pre
payment it is chargeable with double the
letter rates, under the provisions of the
Postal laws.
The Labor-Reformers of Massachusetts
met in convention at "Worcester on the
Gth and nominated "Wendell Phillips for
Governor; Vm. M. Bartlett, Lieutenant
Governor; Israel "W. Andrews, Secretary
of State; S. B. Coffin, State Treasurer;
John F. Fitzgerald, State Auditor, and II.
B. McLaughlin, Attorney-General. Reso
lutions were adopted favoring a reduc
tion in the hours of labor and a system of
factor3" inspection ; condemning the ac
tion of the manufacturers of Fall Biver;
favoring the greenback currency and the
retirement of National Bank currency.
The following ithe public debt state
ment for the month of September:
Six per cent, bonds
Five per cent, bonds .
Total coin bonds
Lawful money debt
Matured debt
Leeal-teuder notes
Certificates of deposit ......
Fractional currency
Coin certificates
Interest
. $1,070,610,1(10
. $1,703,431
1 4.O0O.OII0
.M:i.WiO
374.011 ,-
60.fWI,HIO
40,71.575
ll.ti4.VJHU
30,?,04.i4
. $:,255,74U,e9j
Total debt
Caen in Treasury
Coin $ti7.fi33 316
Currency 4,7tW,35
Special "deposit held for the re
demption of certificates of deposit. 60,66n,oro
Total In Treasury $133.383.(8
Debt less cash in Treasury...
l)ecreae during September.
Decreaxe since June a0
Bonds Issncd to the Pacific Railway
Companies, interest payable in
lawful money, principal outstand
ing "
Interest accrned and not yet paid. ..
Interest paid hy tbe Vnited States..
Interest repaid by the transporta
tion of mails, etc
Balance of interest paid by United
States
$2.122. 4tJ S27
3,312.rttt
e,-jaa.4M
$64,623,512
Ht59.S.V2
6,396,524
21,806,283
The exact relations of matrimony and
money bother the brains of economists.
They think love ought always to go with
good bank accounts but it don't and
that bairns should le born where there is
bread to feed them, which is oftentimes
very far from the fact. Marriage is one of
the things that does not get regulated by
prices current, and the less people have of
worldly goods the more reason there is for
their joining hands to get and save. Mar
riage does more to educate thrift tliiin
thrift to make marriages, and people who
seek a fortune first and a home afterward
seldom get anything more than the shell of
either. Golden, Age.
The Sutro Tunnel is advancing at the
rate of 100 feet a week.
The Comptroller of the Currency re
ports that eighty-three National Banks
have been organized since the passage of
the act of Jan. 14, 175, with capital of
;,234,OO0, to which circulation has Ix'c n
issued amounting to $3,023,730. The
total amount of additional circulation is
sued since the passage of the act is $10,-
218,000, of w hich $1,740,000 has been is
sued to Pennsylvania, $114,000 to "West
Virginia, $3()!,(K0 to Kentucky, $234,000
to Ohio, $331,000 to Indiana, $100,000 to
Illinois, and $121,000 to Iowa. The total
amount of legal-tender notes deposited
for the purpose of retiring circulation
from the passage of the act of June 20,
1874, to Oct. 1, 1875, is $25,042,749. The
amount of National Bank circulation out
standing on the 1st was $347,803,742 be
ing $2,000,000 less than on June 20, 1874,
and $4,000,000 less than on Jan. 14, 1875.
The mother of little Mabel Young, the
victim of the belfry-murder at Boston,
has lost her reason and has been placed in
an insane asylum in that city.
TnE new mint, it was conceded at
Washington on the 3d, will be located at
Chicago.
China and Burmah had, according to a
Rangoon special to the London Times,
formed an alliance, offensive and defens
ive, to oppose the demands of Great
Britain. Lord Napier, it was reported,
had resigned his position as commander
of the British forces in India.
Dispatches of the 3d from Belgrade
say the insurgents had been defeated in an
engagement in the northern part of Bos
nia. The Turks were reported to have
burned the town and church of Misch-
kovac.
A San Sebastian telegram of the 3d
says the Carlists had on the preceding day
thrown 150 hot shot into that city. A
railroad train between Saragossa and
Barcelona had been stopped by brigands
and all the passengers robbed. Among
them were seventeen officers and seamen
of the United States war vessel Franklin-
Gate steamer which reached London
on the 3d brought intelligence of the rind
ing of a 150-carat diamond in the South
African diamond fields.
Necotiations with the Sioux Indians for
the Black Hills country have failed, and
the commissioners have abandoned al
efforts in this behalf. A Cheyenne disl
patch of the 2d says great dissatisfaction
prevailed among the bands of Indians who
had been assembled at the lied Cloud
Agency.
The Third Avenue Savings Bank of
New York city has failed. Amount due
depositors, $1,340,000. The failure is
said to be a bad one.
A San Sebastian dispatch of the 4th
says the Carlists have offered to discon
tinue the bombardment of the town pro
vided the citizens would pay them $100,
000. The steamer L. J. Bager, running on
the Baltic between Lubeck and Copenha
gen, was burned on the night of the 3d.
Twenty-four passengers and eleven sett
men perished.
A religious procession in Toronto on
Sunday, the 3d, was attacked by a mobt
and when the police attempted to disperse
the assailants the rioters turned upon
them and firing ensued, several persons
being wounded. The police then guarded
the procession through the streets and
were firKl upon at the crossings, and ser
eral other persons were wounded, some of
them fatally.
DisrATCiiEs of the 4th give accounts of
a horrible outrage and murder at Suncook,
N. II. The mutilated body of a young
lady named Josie Longmaid, seventeen
years old, had been found in a piece of
woods half a mile from the road over
which she had started in the morning to
go to school. The head was missing,
having been entirely severed from the
body.
Memorial serv ices in honor of the late
President Johnson were held at Nash
ville, Tenn., on the 2d, and were partici
pated in by citizens from many portions
of the State.
At the recent town elections in Con
necticut the larger places generally voted
for liquor license and the smaller towns
were about equally divided on the ques
tion. Hartford gave 1,100 and East Hart
ford 2 majority for license and Danbury
voted no license.
Vice-President "Wilson has been
counseled by his medical advisers to
abandon his intention to lecture this
season, as it would prove too serious a
strain on his constitution if undertaken in
addition to his otlicial duties and the com
pletion of his book.
An immense meeting to protest against
Vaticanism was held at Glasgow, Scot
land, on the 5th.
The taxes remitted by Turkey since the
beginning of the trouble with its Christian
provinces amount to over $30,000,000.
The American Board of Commissioners
for Foreign Missions of the Congregation
al Church met in Chicago on the 5th.
The attendance was large, representatives
to the number of over LJOO being present
from all the States in the Union and from
Canada.
The Comptroller of the Currency has
called upon National Banks for a report
exhibiting their condition at the close of
business on Friday, the 1st of October.
It was reported on the 7th that the in
habitants of Arran-Valley had inaugurated
a general rising against the Carlists on ac
count of the exactions of the soldiery, and
that the latter had been compelled to take
refuge in the mountains.
The epizootic in a mild form has
broken out among the horses in Cincin
nati, Chicago, St. Louis and other West
ern cities.
Memthis dispatches of the Cth report
serious disturbances as having occurred at
Friar's Point, Miss. It is stated that at a
Conservative convention on the night of
the 2d Senator Vloorn severely criticised
the ofiicial conduct of Brown (colored),
Sheriff of the county, and the next day
Brown used severe language in reply,
when Alcorn threatened to shoot him.
Brown then summoned a number of ne
groes, who prepared to come to his as
sistance. On the 5th all the women and
children were sent f rom Friar's Point, and
the place w as attacked by a force of 500
negroes, who were repulsed by white
forces under Gen. Chalmers. In the skir
misn eifftit negroes ana one white man
were wounded.
At the recent election in Connecticut
the State Constitution was amended so as
to change the time of the State election
from the spring to the fall of the year and
to make the Governor's term of office two
years.
The failure for a large amount of
Brown, Stevens & Williamson, heavy su
gar-refiners of Glasgow, Scotland, was an
nounced on the 7th.
Owi.vo to popular outcry the British
Admiralty on the 7ih suspended the cir
cular of July 31, directing the surrender
of fugitive slaves found on British ves
stls.
The hog-cholt ra was playing sad havoc
at Columbus, Ohio, and vicinity on the
7th. Six thousand hogs had already died
so far this month in Franklin. County.
President Grant and party arrived at
Denver on the 7th from Southern Colo
rado.
Special telegrams from Friar's Point,
Miss., on the 7th state that Gen. Chal
mers was driving the colored forces under
Pease (colored) and was determined to
capture him if possible. In the skirmish
es which took place on the 5th a white
man was fatally wounded and three ne
groes were killed and one wounded, prob
ably fatal 13-. Senator Alcorn on the 7th
sent a dispatch to Atty.-Gen. Pierrepont
staring that there was no question of poli
tics in these disturbances; the whites were
to a man for defense, and the negroes
who had leeii misled were fast being
reconciled. He stated that his name had
been most ridiculously associated iu the
matter.
The Bishop of Berlin has been deposed
hy the German Ecclesiastical Court.
THE MARKETS.
Octobkr 9, 1875.
SEW YORK.
Live Stock. Beef Cattle $ 9 .00312 01. Hog
Live, $S.25(&8.37',i- Sheep Live, $l.i5.73.
Breadstuff. Flour Good to choice, $tj.203
6.65; white wheat extra, $6.6V37.60. Wheat No.
Chicago, fl.261.27; No. 2 Northwestern,
fl.aSai-27; No. 2 Milwaukee spring, $1.)
1 30V4. Rye Western and State, 8S0.ic. Bar
ley 1.15Sl-20. Corn Mixed Western, OS
69c. OaU Mixed Western 44345c.
Provisions. Pork Mess, JJ.25&2J.40. Lard
Prime Steam, 13?i13?ic Cheese 6;4S12!Jc.
Wool.. Domestic Fleece, 43a6:c.
CHICAGO.
Live Stock. Beeves Choice, fi.505.7o;
good, $4.753 .00; medium, $1.154.65; butch
ers' stock, $2.&0&3.75; stock cattle, $3."0
3.75. Hogs Live, $7.758.80. Sheep Good to
Choice, $ l.25(&4.73.
Provisions. Butter Choice, 31.3-31C E.jijs
Fresh, 22223c. Pork Mess, 322.6yS22.75.
Lard $13.15313.20.
Bhe adptcffs. Flour White Winter Extra,
$5.75(37.50; spring extra, f5.00aii.01. Wheat
Spring, To. 2, S1.08&1.0S?.,. Com No. 3, 57li
57',ic. Oats No. 2, 32'i52C Rye o. 2,
72(&72;.c. Barley No. 2, 9:QV7i.
Lcmbek. First and Second Clear, $13.00
45.(0; Common Boards, 3iO.5nflll.OO; Fencing,
$10.50&H.00; "A" Shingles, $2.50i32.90 ; Lath,
$1.752.L0.
EAST LIBERTY.
Livb Stock Beeves Best, $ -.50(gi5.75; me
dium, SSSC&'i.TS Hogs Yorkers, $7.00(7.65;
Philadelphia, gS.S.fSS.rO. Sheep Best, $5.00-3
5.S5; medium, $1.50 1.75.
The Recent New Hampshire Horror.
Concord. 11., Oct. 5.
The terrible outrage at Suncook, re
ported late last evening, has aroused in
tense excitement all over the State, and
hundreds are thronging the trains in their
eager curiosity to visit the sceue. The
discoveries of "to-day have, however, been
few. Miss Josie Longmaid, eighteen years
old, daughter of James T.Longmaid, w ho
resides a mile and a half from the Pem
broke Academy, left home for the acade
my at eight o'clock yesterday morning.
The road is a lonely o'ne, and in that dis
tance there are but ix houses. She was
seen to pass the house of Mr. Amos Hoyt,
a fourth of a mile from her home, but
after that was not seen alive, nor did she
reach the academy. She was not missed
till evening, for her younger brother sup
posed that she had remained at home. Her
father at once aroused the neighbors and a
systematic search was begun on both sides
of the road. Shortly after eight o'clock
Mr. Cope, one of the party, came upon her
headless body in a dense undergrowth of
birch, about three rods from the road, a
mile from home. The father was the
third or fourth man to see it, and as his
eyes fell upon the sickening sight he ex
claimed : " Oh, my God!" and threw him
self beside the bloody corpse, alternately
kneeling beside it and embracing it. The
ground and leaves for quite a space were
completely saturated with blood, as was
the butt ot the tree. The clothing of the
girl was torn into shreds and her under
clothing torn and saturated with blood.
Her dress and chemise were stripped to
her breast, and three bones of the right hand
were broken, as if the hand had been struck
when vainly attempting to ward off a
blow. The head was cut off cleanly, as if
cut by a large, sharp knife. The spinal
column was severed between the first and
second vertebrae. It was the unanimous
opinion of the physicians that decapita
tion was performed or begun before the
girl was dead, because of the evidence of
her having bled freely. The body was
otherwise horribly mutilated. Two rings,
one of plain gold and one rubber, and a
gold-enameled breast-pin and ear-rings
were not to be found on the body. The
body -was taken home, placed in the
same position as when found, the right
leg doubled under the left, the right arm
laid across the breast and left one under
the back. At dawn search was begun by
a large party for the missing head, books
and water-proof cloak. About eight
o'clock Horace Ayer found the head part
ly rolled up in the water-proof about
seventy-five rods northwest of where the
body was found, in the . same piece of
woods. It was partially uncovered, rest
ing on the water-proof, which was care
fully thrown over it, but not quite con
cealing it. There was a wound on each
side some inches long, and a cut
on the top. On the right cheek there
was a well-defined print of a boot-heel,
medium size. There was also a cut on
her cheek, jii3t front of the left ear, that
was probably made by some sharp instru
ment. A few minutes later the books
were found, and near by a heavy oak
stick considerably stained with blood.
At about ten o'clock Deputy-Sheriff
Hildreth txk one William Drew, of Pem
broke, into custody on suspicion. Drew
is a young man, twenty-two years of age,
of dissolute habits, and lives alout a half
mile back of the woods where the murder
was committed. He is married to a
woman fully as dissolute. It was thought
advisable to lock him up. Though there
is as 3-et no direct proof pointing to him
as the assassin, Officer Hildreth was
obliged to draw his pistol on the crowd
when he locked Drew up at Suncook.
A negro nanred Charles Woods has also
leen arrested on suspicion of being con
cerned in the crime
went
and
A distracted Staten Islander who has
lain awake all night for several weeks past
proposes to offer a prize ot $500 for tle
best treatise on "How to make out-door
life attractive to mosquitoes."
The Boy In Church.
He was playing at the gate as I
past, and I heard his father call out:
"Boy, you want to irallop in here
get ready for meeting "
"Shi:" brklly repeated the lad.
" Shi! I'll shi you, young man, if you
don't trot in here lively! You'd be as bad
as Jesse Pomeroy if left without a father
for three months!''
" I w ould, hey V"
" No, sass, young man it's time you
were getting ready fur churc h!"
The minister was giving out his text
when the boy and his father came in.
There was considerable improvement in
the lad's looks. His hair had been
greased and combed, he had on his Sun
day jacket, and there was a religious look
in li is eyes as he fell into the pew.
I ought to have listened closely to the
sermon, but 1 cud not. lhe loy and his
father were in the pew next ahead, and 1
couldn't he lp but watch him. I have my
opinion alxjut forcing boys of ten or
twelve years ot age to listen to sermons
which not one adult mind in five can fully
grasp, anil i was willing to chtmce mv
theory on that boy's actions.
lie got along very well for the first ten
minutes. Then he asked his father what
time it was, and when the parent replied
with a warning shake ot the head the boy
cast around him for something to interest
his mind. The preacher settled down to
his discourse and the loy settled down to
his plan of wearing away the coming
hour. He reached over and got hold ol
his father's silk hat, and was trying to re
move the band when the parent took it
awav and bent over and whispered:
' Boy, if vou don't pay attention to the
preac her I'll break your neck w hen we
get home!"
lhe lad hxed his eyes on the clergyman.
He saw that the pood man had auburn
lair, blue eyes, florid complexion, and
was wen uresseu. lie neuru mm make
use of such words as "fortuitous," "un
exampled," and " repellant," and without
being able to tell whether they referred to
a new kind of string-ln-ans or the Gospel
t Christian light, he reached out and
secured his father's cane. He punched
it several flies, crammed the silver head
into his mouth until he turned purple in
the face, and finally reached over and
jabbed a woman under the left shoulder.
His father then grasped the cane, laid it
away, and whispered:
"ioungman, 1 11 tan the hide olt'n
vou when we get home!"
The words were intended to make the
boy paj' strict attention to the balance of
the sermon. He straightened up, looked
at the preacher again, and tried hard to
understand the discourse. The good man
was trying to explain the difference be
tween , theoretical and practical Chris-
ianity, and in two minutes the lad's eyes
were fixed on the chandeliers. He couut-
d the number of burners over and over,
and forgetting himself for an instant he
began to sing. His father gave him a
kick and leaned over and whispered:
Oli! boy, I'll make you hump the
minute we ret into the house! ' Knowing
that his father would keep his word, but
3'ct hoping to break the force of the pros
pective " peeling" by being real good lor
the next half hour, the boy faced the
clerffvman again. He knit his brow and
plainly showed his determination to un
derstand and interest himself in all that
was said. The goxl man was drawing a
parallel, and a dozen of the church mem
bers were halt asleep. It was uiseourag-
nsr, and alter two or three minutes the
b y got hold of a bit of paper, wadded it
up, stinted it into ins mouin, and cneweu
t awhile, and then balancing the wad 011
his thumb, he elevated it ten feet toward
the ceiling.
The law of gravitation applies to paper-
wads as well as to iron weights. This one
came down in a short time, and, as luck
would have it. it struck the bald pate of
the half-asleep sexton. The victim gave
a start of alarm, whirled quickly around,
and the boy's father pinched him savagely
and whispered:
" Oh! I'll fix you fortius! Just let me
get you home once!"
I couldn't see how thebo3rwas to blame.
He couldn't understand one word in ten of
the sermon; he saw a dozen men around
him asleep ; it was a hot day ; he w as a
nervous boy and used to moving around,
and his own father had been gazing out of
the window in an absent way for a quarter
of an hour. He made a last grand effort.
He braced his nerves, shut his teeth hard,
and sat as erect as a new hitching-post.
The clergyman seemed to look right at the
boy as lie used twenty big words in suc
cession, and the lad gave it up. He
opened the pew door and was Drying to en
tice a small dog to come in when his
father awoke and whispered:
" You wait oh, j-ou just wait!"
The exerc ises closed just then, and the
boy walked home behind his parent to get
a dressing down for not having the mental
calibre of a f ull-grown man, and for not
sitting still and ging to sleep like his
father. Af. Quad, in Xeio York Graphic.
dressed to us bearing upon such a view
of the subject may perhaps be sufficient
to induce those having the power to maku
the alteration, but they ouirlit not to bo
permitted to intluence our judgment in
determining the present risrhts of the par
ties litigating lie fore us. o argument
as to woman's need ol suflrage can lie
considered. We can only act u.xm her
risrhts as. they exist. It is not fur us to
look at the hardship of withholding. Our
duty is at an end if we rind it is within
the power of a State to withhold."
The United States Supreme Court on
the Woman-Suffrage Question.
In the Supreme Court of the United
States at Washington, Oct. 4, in the case
of Virginia C. Minor and Francis Minor,
her husband, plaintiffs in error, v. Reese
Happcrsetr, in error to the Superior Court
of the State of Missouri, Chief Justice
Waitc delivered the opinion of the court
to the effect that the Fourteenth Amend
ment of the Constitution does not confer
upon women the right tovotc. The court
affirms in the decision that women have
always been considered citizens under the
Constitution and entitled to all the privi
leges and immunities of citizenship, but in
the admission of this general point the
court decides that suffrage is not one of
the privileges and immunities of the citi
zen, and that it is nowhere made so in ex
press terms, and even further than this,
that suflrage was not coextensive with the
citizenship of the States at the time of its
adoption. Appling these general facts to
the constitutional amendments, the court
shows that the framers of the Fourteenth
Amendment never contemplated that it
conferred the right of suffrage even upon
the colored persons because it invested
them with citizenship, and, taking this
view, they framed the Fifteenth Amend
ment to prevent any State denying them
the right ot suffrage because of race, color,
or previous condition of servitude. Upon
this point the court said :
" The Fourteenth Amendment had al
ready provided that no State should make
or enforce any law which should abridge
the privileges or immunities of citizens of
the United States. If suffrage was one of
these privileges or immunities why amend
the Constitution to prevent its lieing de
nied on account of race, etc.? Nothing is
more evident than that the greater must
include the less, and if all were already
protected why go through with the form
of amending the Constitution to protect a
part."
The decision closes with the following
statement :
' Certainly if the courts can consider
any question settled this is one. For
nearly ninety years the people have acted
upon the idea that the Constitution, when
it conferred citizenship, did not necessa
rily confer the right of suffrage. If uni
form practice long continued can settle
the construction of so important an instru
ment as the Constitution of the United
States onfcssedly i3, most certainly it has
been done here. Our province i- to de
cide what the law is, not to declare what
it should be. We have given this case
the careful consideration its importance
demands. If the law is wrong it
ought to be changed, but the pow er for
this is not with us. The arguments ad-
FACTS AM) Fl (JUKES.
Georgia's debt is ft, 105,000, and she
owns property worth 0,000,000.
The velocity of dec trie waves through
the Atlantic cable has liecn ascertained to
be from t,000 to S,itM) miles pt r second.
The increase in coal shipped from the
Lackawanna region this year, as compared
with 174, footed up f'lSS, 1 .() tons, Se pt. 11.
The United States Minister at Stock
holm states that 30.000 pupils study horti
culture or forest-culture m the common
schools of Sweden.
Catti.e-uaisino in Brazil is subject to
much greater development than exists at
present. Ihere are estimated to exist 111
the Umpire about 20,000,000 head of cat
tle. It is said that among the statutes of
Massachusetts is an unrepealed law which
tines a young man for walking out with
his sweetheart after sundown.
The population of Minnesota, according
to the census just taken, the population of
liamsey County being estimated at 3t,0K),
is 003, K50. This is an increase of about
104,000 since 1870.
In the Monongahcla coal-trade there arc
now engaged 125 steam tow-lxiats and 3,000
barges and lioats, having an aggregate
tonnage of 1,300,000 a tonnage greater
than all the rest of the Mississippi Valley.
The embezzlement of Paxton, the gay
and festive teller of the Mechanics' Bank,
of Montreal, is swelling its fair propor
tions. As far as now ascertained, the
amount is over $100,000, with some back
counties still to heir from.
The most dangerous mines in the
United States are in Schuylkill County,
Pa., one man being killed there lor
every 35,000 tons mined. One man is
killed in England fur every 13S,000 tons
mined, one in Pennsylvania for every
88.HH) tons, and one in Ohio for every
133,000 tons. This destruction of human
life ought always to be considered when
making complaints about dear fuel. No
doubt the price-soften charged for coal are
too clear, but the excess of charge s is'onthe
part of those who own the mines, and
never on that of those w ho work them.
In 1SG0 Russia had 100 foundries and
machine shops, only 52 of which were
provided with steam. At the present time
there are 302 of these establishments, 7'J of
which are exclusively occupied with the
manufacture of agricultural implements.
Statistics are to hand concerning 1 7'J shops
only; these employ 40,528 workmen. In
lScM there were 222 locomotives made in
Uussia; last year the number was 708. A
large number of English workmen are
employed in Russian engineering shops,
but they complain of biding treated as
naturalized Russian subjects that is to
say, their personal rights and liberties are
but little respected.
With 9,000,000 bushels of surplus
wheat this year Kansas farmers will re
ceive !f!),(K0,000 clear from that crop
alone. For their 51,000,000 bushel of
surplus corn they will get at least !?13,
000,000. Allowing them only !5,000,M)0
for other marketable crops we find that
they will have $27,000,000 to pay debts
and. make improvements, besides begin
ning another year with ample provisions
to last their families and farm stock till
another crop can be raised. How is that
for a " grasshopper country" settled since
the war? In live years from now the un
organized! counties of Kansas, that do not
at present contain a single human habita
tion or agricultural implement, will be
shipping more wheat thau California.
Leavenworth Times.
Her First Beau.
You knew at once by her general appear
ance and the manner in which she smiled
and the giggles she giggled and the way
that she talked that this was the first time
that she had ever had a beau. She was,
in fact, very much excited, and, like a per
son stricken with the first shock of numb
palsy, didn't know exactly how to use her
tongue. The blood rushed to her head
until there was a tremendous buzzing in
her ears, and she recognized all her ac
quaintances, old and young, and called
them by name in a loud tone of voice, and
wore at the same time a very triumphant
expression of countenance. It was a mo
ment of intense ecstasy (to her) a moment
looked and longed for ever since she got
in her teens; and all the heroes and hero
ines of all the dime novels she had ever
read went trooping across her vision like
a row of bees in swarming time. Apples
and peaches and hollyhocks and mush
rooms aud pumpkins and hedge fences, as
they hung on trees or blossomed on stalks,
or grew in the grass, or tore her new dress
as she swept by them, borne almost lrom
her feet by an electric force all passed as
an accessory panorama of bliss on her w ay
to the circus, that glorious, grand, never-to-be-forgotten
noondny of her new exjK'i i
ence. Did she enjoy the show? Did she
remember how the elephant etood on his
hind feet? Did she follow the flight of
the great, unsurpassed, unrivaled, wonder
ful, astonishing, most daring bareback
rider in the world, as he dived in a
doubled-up way through two hoops and
alighted on the horse again right side up?
Was the music the most delightful she
had ever heard? Of course! But some
how these things got all mixed up in one
glorious whirl of delight, in the one glo
rious fact that she had" a beau a nice beau
in black cloth and a red necktie and a
stovepipe hat, and who smoked a cigar and
bought peanuts and candy and lemonade
every time the man who sold it came
around and whispered his goods so softly
that the noise of the band and the best ten-year-old
joke of the clown were drowned
out of hearing entirely. Oh, how her
little heart went pit-a-pit and trobbjty
throb and bobbyty-bob on her way home
that glorious afternoon! Jlodiester Chron-
A Man of Nerve.
On Monday forenoon a numlcr of trot
ters were leing exercised at the driving
park, among them Effie Deane, driven by
the well-known horse-raiser, Alden Gold
smith. The horses were trotting at a live
ly pace and were all bunched in a heap
whe n one of Effie's reins broke, and Gold
smith toppled over backward, and every
spectator expected to see him drop from
the sulky and man sled by the feet of the
crowd of horses behind. This tragedy
was prevented, however, for Goldsmith,
whose feet caught in the foot-rests of the
thills, recovered himself and then gave an
exhibition of nerve that was most thrill
ing. The mare, released from the restraint
of the taut reins, broke into a run and flew
ahead like the wind, leaving all of the
others behind. While she was going at
this rate Goldsmith crawled over her back
until bv reaching forward he could get
hold of the snaflle of tbe bit, and then, ly
in? upon her neck, he brought her up
with a sudden pull that carried her almost
perpendicularly in the air. He was heart
ily applauded by all who w itnessed the
daring deed. Kinji-tva (X. V.) Freeman.
Sunstroke has numbered few victims
during the present season.
SEXSE AM) XONSE.VSE.
The Constable who had an attachment
for a widow was informed with dignity
that his affections were not reriprocatctf.
Thk fishe ries in the Gulf of St. Law
rence this season have proved compara
tive failures so far as nun kered are con
cerned. In a certain New York whitlow ia dis
played this suggestive notice: " 15oy want
ed, that has fully rested himself and is not
too intellec tual."
A NEwi.YCoMri.ETEn Danbury house has
folding doors. The man designed single
doors, but his wifes preferred the former.
She said they were so handy in case of a
funeral.
Ik you see any young lady careless in
Iter apparel jut now you may conclude
she's curtailing expenses so as to go in
heavy on papa when the Emperor ol
Brazil comes.
I'iie crisp weathe r which calls for fall
overcoats appears to have snuffed out the
sea-serpe nt. He hasn't been heard from
for three weeks, and this is a good year for
the sea-serpents, too.
Boston has a " Soc iety for the Encour
urciiicnt of Studies at Home." Imagine
a stubby six-year-old, with a nose that
needs attending to, a member of a society
with a name like that!
In one of the large London hotels they
have introduced steam machinery for
washing the dirty plates and dishes, and
also lor cleaning boots and knives and
forks. It is said to answer well.
In accordance with the provisions of
the Connecticut Fac tory law an officer
took eight children from a Daniel
sonville (Conn.) mill recently, and or
dered their parents to send them to
school.
"Two FsnocB Falls (Minn.) men,
driving behind a team of mules, discov
ered a glitter on the hoof of one of them,
examined it and found a gold ring which
the mule had stepped on and sccuml with
the cork of Ids shoe." liomance set afloat
by a designing Coroner.
The Lynchburg (Va.) Tlejnibliean, reports
squirrels migrating southward in large
numbers, saying " they may le seen aliove
and below the city just before nightfall
crossing the river on their bark boats,
using their tails as sails w hen the wind is
favorable."
Teaching the young idea how to shoot:
A son of Capt. George M. Bailey, of
Grot on. Conn., was shot in the hand by
the accidental discharge of a pistol whic h
he was examining in sc hool the other da',
and investigation showed that four other .
pupils present were similarly armed.
The Wichita (Kan.) Benson says that a
ninety-pound watermelon has been raised
within gun-shot of the editor's back-win-dow.
This may lie true, but it must have
been within gun-shot of the owner's buck
windejw, also; it would be too much to
ask anyone to believe that, it was ever al
lowed to reach maturity otherwise. Chi-
Mfjo 1 imes.
I he business of selling degrees purport
ing to be granted by medical colleges In
Philadelphia still flourishes abroad; and
then; is a standing advertisement of sue h
degrees in the English papers. The
charge for the degree of Ph. 1)., from the
"American University of Philadelphia"
is 20, which includes a handsome
diploma.
J. B. Smith, a Boston colored caterer,
presented a check at the bank the oilier
day, aud the teller asked him if he had
anyone to identity him. .M r. hmitti, a
toiiishcd, said : " Young man, don't you
know me?" The teller confessed he did
not. " Then." said Mr. Smith, " it is evi
dent that ymi have not moved in the first
circles of society."
A man in Oxford County, Me., misse-d
his pants in which was his wallet con
ing if 100. He went to a fortune teller to
find out about the missing property. She
said that the money was Dear some water,
and described the person who took It.
About an hour or two alter he left, his
wife, on making up the bed, found the
pants tucked in between the miltress and
feather bed, with the money all safe.
At Eufaula, Ala., lately, a mulatto,
about twenty-three j-ears of age, died from
a rather unusual cause, home time ago
he attended church, and some of the fe
males became excited, and were surging
and plunging about, and lie undertook to
hold one of the more violently ffected,
but in so doing she threw b;ick one of her
arms with great force, striking him a
meist violent blow across his chest and
nearly killing him outright at the time.
He recovered slightly, however, but con
tinued to complain, and frequently had
hemorrhages from lhe chest, or blooel
spitting, and died a few days after.
An enterprising undertaker in a town
near New London, Conn., discovered one
day recently that a wealthy stranger in
town was dangerously sic k, and, scenting
a job, went to work without any orders
making an elegant coffin for him. To his
disgust however, the sick man, soon after
the ceiffin was done, began te recover, and
the undertaker's friends be-gan to laugh
at him. The invalid, however, had a re
lapse on account if sudden exposure and
fell awav again, but. seeing his end was
near, desiretel his wife to take him to his
home in Western New York to die. This
stirred up the undertaker and he went to
the woman and urged he r to buy a coffin
to take with her, as lie might die on the
way, and it was best to be prepared for any
event. His eloquence prevailed and tiic
coffin was purchfised.
A pretty tableau in real life was re
cently arrange:d near Ore gon, Holt Coun
ty, Kan., where a young lady named Al
ice Carson encouraged the attentions of
two young men named Kretzcr and
Wheeler. Having agreed to marry both
of them, she named the same day for the
wedding and trusted to luck to decide
whic h should be the happy man. AVheel
er arrived first w ith a traveling minister,
and hardly had the ceremony bee n per
formed when Kretzcr appeared with a
dignified Episcopalian rector. Kretzcr
insisted on an explanation, while Wheeler
declared that his wife should not explain
her actions to any other man except him
self. Pistols were drawn and knives bran
dished, so that there seemed every reason
to expect that the lady would be left with
out either lover. The wrath of the
disappointed Kretzer was finally ap
peased and he was about to retire, w hen it
was discovered that the two ministers
were involved in a heated contest over the
right of the outsider to collect his fee with
out paying royalty to the regular resident
clergyman.
The proposition for having iTesiding
Elders elected by vote of the ministers,
instead of appointment by the Bishops, Is
now being djscussed in the Methodist pa
pers. Another change is also proposed by
Dr. Potter, in the New York .4txeaj, that
negotiations between congregations be al
lowed and encouraged, and that the way
lie opened to all alike for private arrange
ments, subject only to the asent of the
Presiding Bishop, who would be expected
to sanction all such arrangements, except
w hen decided unreasonable. The present
plan of appointing by the Bishop was
well, he thinks, in the old condition of
things, bi't the new condition fully justi
fied the proposed change;. The new plan
will release the Bishop and iTesiding
Elders of a vast amount of lalior and so
licitude, will lessen the chance for rebel
lion and w ill secure more satisfactory ap
pointments. The British branch of the Evangelical
Alliance has issued an invitation to its
members and other friends of Christian
Union to attend the next annual Confer
ence at Belfast, Oct. 19 and the days following.
