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THE HERALD. i'UBUSUED EVERT THURSDAY AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBEASKA. On Vine St., One Block North of Main, Corner of Fifth St. ' - THE HERALD. i mm m m mujlm:m m r . w i m mm mm mm Mwt.mmw.iM w w jm m m mlmt mum. i m u u L.i vy rv y t-i .& i.j lj la ljl vo-a ia la t-i v 1 1 is iiiure I i rxi i"i ': OFFICIAL PAPKIl OF CASS COISTV. Terms, in Advance: One copy, one year $2.00 One copy, six month..... 1.00 On copy, tnree mouths 50 JNO. A. MACMURPHY, Editor. "PERSEVEUAXCE CONQUERS." TERMS: $2.00 a Year. VOLUME XI. PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA- THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1875. NUMBER 30. HENRY BCECK, DEALER Hf -Fnr nit nre, SAFES, CHAIRS, Lounges, Tables, Bedsteads, KTC, TC., ETC., Of All Descriptions. METALLIC BURIAL CASES. Wooden Coffins Of U elzee, ready-made, and told cheap for cask. With many thanVa for past patronage, I lnrlte a'.l to call and examine my LARGE STOCK OV Twr ni tui-o and Co ill ns. Jn'- AND MEDICINES AT J. H. BUTTERY'S, On Main Street, bet. Fifth and Sixth. Wholesale aLd nctail Dealer in Drujs and Medicines, Paints, Oils, Varnishes. Patent Lledicines, Toilet Articles, etc., etc. ITTIiESCMPTIOXS carefully compounded at all hour, day and niclit. 35-ly J. W. SHANNON'S Feed, Sale and Livery Main Street, Plattsmouth, Neb. I am prepared to accommodate the public with Carriages, Buggies, Wagons, AND A No. I Hearse, On Short Notice and Reasonable Terms. A II A C K 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, Ilsimuv Ss- Clai'lc. Joi? FlTZOERALD. ... E. . Povitr A. W. McLai-giilix.. JOUM U'lCoUltkE President. , Vice-President. Cashier. Assistant Cashier. Thin Bank i now open fr business nt their new room, corner M;:in and Sixth ureets, and are pre pared to transact, a general BANKING BUSINESS. Stocks, Bords, Gold, Government and Local Securities BOUGHT AXD SOLD. Deposits Received and Interest Al lowed on Time Certificates. DRAFTS DRAWN, Avnilahie In anv part ct Ihe I'nivd State and in all the Vrinci'pal Towns and Cities of Europe. AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED 1T1! 1 ' I I lit OF WrJ?lV31I:i2!-. Persona wishing to brin;r out their frlendf from Europe can rCRCHAUK TICKET TttOM C9 Tlll-Ollll tO IMltt.llCMltl. Excelsior Barber Shop. .7. C. 3300E, Kain Street, opposite Saunders Hcnse. HAIR-CUTTING, Shaving and Shampooing. ESPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO Cutting Children's and L.a tiles Hair. Call and See Boone, Gents, And get a boon in a n41-ly GO TO THE Post Office Book Store, H. J. STBEIGHT, Proprietor, rom toub Bools. Stationery, Pictures, Music, TOYS, CONFECTIONERY, Violin Strings, Newspapers, Novels, Song Books, etc., etc POST OFFICE BUILDI.G, PLATTSJ10UTO, O. F. JOHNSON, DEALER US Drugs, Medicines, AHr 7 . ii 1 WALLPAPER. AUPapsr TrimniGu Free of Clarke ALSO. DEALER III Books, Stationery BIAGAZINES AND LATEST PUBLICATIONS. Prescriptions carefully compounded by an experienced Druggist. EEMEMCER TUB PLACE Cor. Fifth and Main Streets, PLATTSMOUTH, NEB. mm THOS. W. SHRYCCK, PEAl.BR nt Fnrnitnre ! Main St., bet. 5th and 6th, - PLATTSMOUTH, - NEB. AL50 UNDERTAKER, And ia on hand a large stock of Metallic TJurial Cases, Wooden Coffins, Etc.. Of all ize, cheap for cash. Funerals Attended on Short Notic II. i. W1TEWUX & SON, Vholea)9 and Retail Dealer in PINE LUMBER, Lath, Shingles, SASH, D00ES, BLINDS, ETC., On Slain St., cor. Fifth, FLA.TTS5IOUTII, - - - NEB. FOR YOUR GROCERIES CO TO J.V.WECKBACH Cor. Third and Main Sta., PlatUmouth. (Gnthmanu's old Bland.) lie keeps on hand a large and well-selected stock of Fancy Groceries, COFFEES, TEAS, ETC., ETC, Also a Large Stock of DRY GOODS Boots and Shoes, CK0CKEIIY, (jrEEXSAVARE, Etc., Etc., Etc. In connection with the Grocery is a BAKERYand CONFECTIONERY. in.-lieist Prirc Paid for Country Produce. A full stock at all time, and will not be undersold. Take notice of the Sin: "EMPIRE .BAKERY AND GROCERY." nljl WILLIAM STADELMANN Baa on hand one of roe largest itocki of CLOTHING AND Gents' Furnishing Goods FOR SPRINO AN1 "UjIMER. I invite evcrybo-'y iu want of anything in my line to cail at uiy a.un. South SiJe Main, bet. 5th & 6th Sts., And convincx themsrlvp of the fact. I hare as a jcci:tT ;n my l(ftil Departmcota a rtock of Kine Clothins; for Men and Buys, to which we In Tiie thoe wh ant ;ood. I al.o keep on hand a lare and well-selected Cock or Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, Etc. ' PLATTSMOUTH HILLS, fLATTSMOUTH NEBRASKA. Cos bad Heijel, Proprietor. FLOUR, CORN MEAL, FEED, ilwayi on hand and for sale at lowest cash prlcra. The Highest Tricci paid for Wheal and Cora, rartlcaiai attention si Tea to cutom work. CURRENT PARAGRAPHS. The cholera lias broken out in the prov ince of Mysore, India. Samcel C. Dimmick, Attorney-General of Pennsylvania, died recently at llarris bnrg of pneumonia. The Democrats of the First Massachu setts District have nominated llou. Chas. t. Davis for Congress. Gen. Baiitlett has declined the nom ination for Lieutenant-Governor of Massa chusetts on the Democratic ticket. George W. Pembekton was hanged at Boston on the 8th for the murder of Mrs. Bingham at East Boston in March last. The North Carolina Constitutional State Convention has adjourned sine die, after a session of thirty -one working days. The dry-goods house of Strauss, Leh man fc Co., of New York city, has sus pended, with liabilities estimated at $500,000. "Westervei.t, convicted of being im plicated in the abduction of Charlie Boss has been sentenced to seven years' solitary confinement in the Penitentiary. Is a recent pri.e-nght near Boston le tween John Kyan and Michael Carney the former received injuries which re sulted in his death the day after the fight. Another suit has been instituted against "Win. M. Tweed to recover the sum of $ 98:1,6-10 alleged to have been fraudulently paid on warrants certified by him. It has been decided to place the name of John Quincy Adams upon the Massa chusetts Democratic State ticket as candi date for Lieutenant-Governor, vice Gen. Bartlett, resigned. John Bclmner and Allen Baker, two of the Illinois Ku-Klux, have been tried at Murphysboro for murder, convicted and sentenced to the Penitentiary for twenty-five years. A new trial was refused. Announcement is made that Messrs. Moody and Sankey will begin their revi val on the 31st of the present month in the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Bink, which will accommodate from 7,000 to 8,000 persons. The services will be on the same general plan as that pursued in Great Britain. The Chicago Journal of the 9tU says : ' Private information and press dis patches from various parts of the "West in dicate that, although here and there some of the corn was damaged by flood or frost, yet the aggregate crop will be literally stupendous. Advices from the South also indicate that the cotton crop will be better than the average." An oflicial statement of the number of grain and molasses distilleries in opera tion on the 1st inst., and their daily capac ities, shows the number of distilleries to be 174, w ith a total daily spirit-producing capacity of 189,88:1 gallons, an increase over September of forty -five distilleries, and 18,874 gallons daily. A recent high wind in Philadelphia blew down the unfinished Agricultural Hall, on the National Centennial grounds. The building was about one-third com pleted and entirely of wood. Eight la liorcrs were injured, five seriously and one fatally. The building M as under con tract to be finished by Jan. 1. Jons Siney, President of the Miners' National l;nion, and Xingo Parks, a prominent and active member of the same association, were recently tried at Clear field, Pa., on the charge of riot and con spiracy. The former was acquitted and the latter convicted and sentenced to hard labor for one year and fined one dollar and costs, amounting to f 1,500. In the Hard-Money Convention at De troit, on the 14th, resolutions were adopted declaring against all schemes for cur rency inflation or any form of irredeema ble paper currency, and oppong any policy which lias not the direct purpose to establish the currency on a par and ac tually interconvertible with coin. Dele gates were appointed to attend the Cincin nati Convention. In a recent charge to the Grand Jury, Judge Boreman, of the United States Dis trict Court at Salt Lake, took strong grounds in opposition to polygamy or bigamy and in regard to enforcing the law of Congress ot 1862 punishing the offense. He stated that it had never been respected, and every possible means had been used to prevent its enforcement. He called upon the jury to indict all persons known to be guilty of polygamy. The Commissioner of Indian Afl'airs at Washington has received a dispatch from Mr. Jenney, of the Black Hills exploring party, announcing the discovery of gold in small quantities in the Bear Lodge Mountains, in the northwestern portion of the Black Hills. The field is limited in area, not exceeding fifty square miles, and is wholly in "Wyoming, being sepa rated from the region about Harney's Peak by Bed "Water Valley. TnE American Board of Foreign Mis sions, at its recent session in Chicago, elected .'the following-named officers for the ensuing year: President, Ilev. Mark Hopkins; S'ice-President, Hon. "Win. E. Dodge; Corresponding Secretaries, Rev. Selah B. Treat and Nathaniel G. Clark; Recording Secretary, Rev. John O. Means; Treasurer, Langdon S. "Ward; Auditors, Hon. Thomas II. Russell, Hon. Avery Plumer and Elbridge Terry. There are 116 churches in St. Louis, owned by fourteen religious sects, with a total valuation of $ 2,'9:J9,770. Of this amount only $274,640 are taxable, the rest being represented by property in actual use for religious worship. The second annual Church Congress in the Protestant Episcopal Church will be held in Music Fund Hall, in Phila delphia, during the second week in No vember. A plot of ground in London of 3,000 feet has been recently let at a ground rent of l:j,000. This is at the rateof 15-,000 pr acre, equivalent to a purchase price of f;j,sd,uw. EPITOME OF THE WEEK. CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. A Brussels dispatch of the 9th an nounces that diplomatic relations between Venezuela and Holland had been inter, rupted by the abrupt departure of the Minister of the former ower from the Hague because of a failure to agree in certain pending negotiations. The Attorney-General of Mississippi, together with U. S. Senator Pease and L S. Attorney Wells, of the same State, called on Atty.-Gen. Pierrepont, in Wash ton, on the Uth, and assured him that if there was no interference by the General Government in Mississippi the result would Ihj the redemption of the State from many serious difliculties now existing. At Forest City, 111., on the 9th, Win. Pcmberton, who had been arrested on a charge of horse-stealing, was taken from the hands of the ollicer by a crowd of men and lynched. The members of the firm of Duncan, Sherman fc Co., the bankrupt bankers of New York city, were arrested on the 8th, on complaint of John A. Rocbling's Sons, on a charge of fraud. They were released on bail of o.OOO each. Mr. Duncan has withdrawn his oiler to pay his creditors o3 per cent, in notes. The Prince of Wales left London on his trip to India on the evening of the 11th. News was received in London on the 11th that Turkey and Serviahad mutually agreed to withdraw their troops from the frontier. TnE steamer Biscay, while on her voy age from Cronstadt to Bremerhaven a few days ago, stranded oil" Jutland. Eleven persons were drowned. A Montreal (Canada) gentleman prom inently connected with the Guibord case lias stated that no dajr had been appointed for the burial of Guibord's remains, and that if was possible it might be deferred for a considerable time. Michael Carney, the surviving princi pal in the fatal prize-fight near Boston, and the seconds of the pugilists have given themselves up to the police authori ties. An Augusta (Ga.) telegram of the 11th announces the sudden and serious illness of Alexander II. Stephens. According to a Paris telegram of the 12th, 560 Carlist soldiers had crossed the frontier at Port dc Yanasque into France and had been disarmed by the French au thorities. It was reported in Madrid on the 13th that the French authorities were seeking to interne Gen. SabaMs, and Don Carlos had ordered that he be shot wherever found. A Washington dispatch of the 12th states that Atty.-Gen. Pierrepont was in daily receipt of advices from Mississippi. Gov. Ames was averse to arming the citi zens of the State for their own protection for the reason that it would produce great excitement. Everything was reported quiet. The Women's International Christian Association met at Pittsburgh on the 12th. Mrs. Samson, of Boston, was elected President and Mrs. John H. Winters, of Dayton, Ohio, Vice-President. One of the indictments against Charles Mcllrath, late State Auditor of Minne sota, for alleged malfeasance in office in connection with school lands, was tried at St. Paul on the 12th, and resulted in a verdict of not guilty. I 'resident Grant and party arrived at Chicago on the 12th, en route for Wash ington. Cardinal McCloskey has ordered at Rome a splendid marble altar for the cathedral in New York, at a cost of $40, 000. Letters from the Arctic expedition were recently received in London. On the 6th and 7th of August the voyagers were at Waygart Straits all well. Henry J. Yates (Rep.) has been elect ed Mayor of Newark, N. J., by a ma jority of 3,390 over Andrew Smalley (Dem.). The Supreme Court of Michigan has decided the State law taxing the liquor dealing business to be constitutional and not iu contravention of the clause in the Constitution prohibiting the Legislature from passing any law licensing the sale of intoxicating liquors. The National Women's Congress met at Syracuse, N. Y., on the 13th. A num ber of prominent women were in attend ance. The annual address was delivered by Trof. Maria Mitchell. A New Orleans telegram of the 13th states that three colored men were attacked in that city the night before, and that one of them was killed outright, another mor tally and the third slightly wounded. Two white men, charged with the crime"; were arrested and put in jail, and a mass meeting was held on the 13th at which resolutions were adopted disclaiming responsibility- for the outrage, condemning all violence and pledging support to the law of the land. A Frenchman named LaPage was ar rested in Suncook, N. II., on the evening of the 13th on suspicion of being the guilty party in the Langmaid murder. A Washington telegram of the 14th states that, although the United States Government had repeatedly expressed its desire to the Spanish Government for the termination of the insurrection in Cuba, and tendered its good offices to produce an accommodation between the contend ing parties, it had never gone to the extent of a late transatlantic story by diplomati cally threatening to acknowledge the rights of the Cubans in case hostilities be not closed before the 1st of January next. News was received in London on the 14th to the effect that Russia was prepar ing for a military expedition against Bok hara, in Central Asia. The Des Moines State Iit-gMcr of the 15th had returns from seventy-four coun ties in Iowa, which gave a majority of 24,529 for Kirkwood, and it was thought his majority in the State would be about 30,000. The Legislature would be largely Republican. An Omaha dispatch of the 14th places the Republican majority in Nebraska at altout 10,000, and states that the new Con stitution had been adopted by a very large majority'. Official returns received on the 15th from all but three counties in Ohio gave nayes a majority over Allen of 3,463. Cary, for Lieutenant-Governor, ran 10,000 behind Allen in the State. In the Legis lature the Republicans have a majority ol eighteen seventeen in the House and one in the Senate. A recent dispatch from Rome an nounces that Italy w ill be represented at the American Centennial. In consequence of his perpetual troubles with the Prussian Government the Prince Bishop of Bn-slau dissolved his connec tion w ith the Prussian portion of his diocese. THE MARKETS. KEff YOBK. October lfi, 1S"'. Live Stock. Beef Cattlo-f 10.OK&13 00. Hog Live, $S.3;'$S.rO. Sheep Live, $1.506.25. BaEAWbTCFFs. Klour Good to choice, $t;.0S3 6.50; white wheat extra, $6.5.737.50. Wheat No. 2 Chicago, fl.--'61.2S; No. 2 Northwestern, fl.37&1.2S; No. 2 Milwaukee spring, $1,293 1.30. Rye Weetcrn and State, 'J0'J2c. Bar loy $1.151.30. Corn-Mixed Western, 70 7Jc. Oata Mixed Western, 476-t!c. Provisions. Pork Men, t2-'.-V23.00. Lard Prime Steam, 143Uc. Cheese e;41i!ic Wool. Domestic Fleece, 43&6.C. CHICAGO. Live Stock. Beoec Choice, $ .5fKTJf.00 ; good, $1.75(i.2; medium, $1.00 3 4X0; batch ers' flock, $2.50:.75; stock cattle, $-i.'0r 3.75. llojrs Live, $7.60&8.25. Sheep Good to choice, $1 25!. 75. Provisions. Butter Choice, 3"S3lc. Es Freeh, 21&22e. Pork Mens, $J2.503i.00. Lard $13.30-313.35. Breadstuff's. Klonr White Winter Extra, $5.75&S.('0; spring extra, $5.0036.00. Wheat Sprins, No. 2, $1.11J1.12. Corn No. 2, S6J4 ro7ic. Oats No. 2, 33SJ(3!c. Rye No. 2, 7272!4c Barley No. 2. '.itXfV'fii.i. Lcmbkh. First and Second Clear, $13.00 45.'0; Common Boards, $10.5011.00; Fencing, $10.50&U.0; "A" Shingles, $2.50(&2.'.)0; Lath, $1.7E&2.(0. EAST LIBERTY. Live Stock Beeves Best, f .30(T?.6.75 ; me dium, S"--"1&"'-75. Hogs Yorkeie, $.'.K)0,S.5; Philadelphia.-, $S.V(rr9.10. sheep Best, $5.2 '.'0; medium, $4.7S&5.U0. Pat eh-Work. We pray to be saved from our enemies; it would be as well if we should pray once in a while to be saved from ourselves. It takes a life-time to learn to pla' even a poor game of chess, and j'et we expect to sit down and see clean through a man at the first sitting. Most everybody wants to be praised for something they haven't got. The sterling" virtues are the growth of a strong and vigorous soil ; very weak per sons may be very innocent, but they can't be very virtuous. Whipping a bov to cure him of fear is just about as sensible as whipping a beer barrel to keep it trom working on unuay. Envy is probably the most common passion of the human heart, and yet it is the one which we all are ready to swear that we have got the least of. It is often impossible to define happi ness or uniiappiness because it is the re sult of -such a multitude of nameless little hings. The miser works harder and for less pay than any man living. I don't doubt the truth of the following saying: The more a man knows of him self tile less he is surprised at the failings of others. There are two men who need close watching; the one who is alwity-s praising and the one who is always condemning himself. He w ho suffers the most, and endures it the best, is the hero. Fortune and happiness are something alike iu this respect those who hunt for them the most rind them the least. We often see people who think they have got a good deal less than they deserve, but never see those who think they have got more. One reason why there is not more hap piness in the world is because there arc so lew who know how to enjoy what little they have got. There are plenty of people lazy enough to die, but not quite dead enough to bury. I never have known a man of genius but that found his indolence the strongest passion he had t contend with. There is nothing so valuable to a man as his passions so iong as he is master of them. The first evidence we have that we are growing wise is when we begin to discov er our ignorance. I have known people who spend one half of their time in repenting of their blunders and the ether half in committing some more. There may be a great deal of philosophy in laughing when you have got the jump ing toothache, but there is no fun in it. . The reputation that a man gets from his ancestors often wants as much altering to lit him as their old clothes would. I like to see a man practice what he preaches, even if he has to drink cold water once in a while to do it. It is a great gift to know the real value of things when we have got them; after they are lust any third-rate fool can tell what they were worth. Cunning men get caught as often as anybody, and the worst is, they have noth ing nor nobody to console them. Sudden wealth is very apt to make a man foolishly profuse; it is just so with a bear when lie tinds a hive of honey; he eats himself sick first and then wastes the rest. As long as a man can blush there is hopes ot him. Young man, you can't outlive disgrace; it will follow you to the end of life, and, like a ghost, will appear to you when and w here you least expect it. Josh lJilliuijs, in, N. Y. Weekly. English Ivy. The Journal of Horticulture says that the u-e of English ivies for the purpose of decorating living rooms is more exten sive every year, and cannot be too highly commended. Being very strong they will live through any treatment; "but study their peculiarities and manifest willing ness to gratify them, and they will grow without stint. Most houses are too hot for them, as, indeed, they are for their owners. Neither plants nor peopleshould have the temperature over sixty'-five de grees Fahrenheit. Take care not to en feeble your ivies by excessive watering or undue heat, and you will see that they will not seem to mind whether the sun shines on them or not, or in what jtosition or direction you train them. Indeed, so much will they do themselves to make a room charming, that we would rather have an unlimited number of them to draw upon than anything else in nature or art. Do you wish the ugly plain doors that shut o'lf 3-our tiny entry to j our parlor to le arched or curved like those in the drawing-rooms of your richer neighbor? Buy a couple of brackets, such as lamps for the burning of kerosene are placed on, and screw them in the sides of the door. Put in each a plant of English ivy, the longer the better, then train the plants over the top. against the sides, indeed, any way j-our fancy dictates. ou need not buy the beautiful but costly pots the flower-dealer will advise; the common glazed ones will answer every purpose, for, by placing in each two or thrwe sprays of Coliseum ivy, in a month's time no vestige of the pot itself can be discerned through heir thick screen. Jcst a drop too much Being hanged. THE CHILDREN'S BED-TIME. The clock strikes seven in the hull, The curfc of the children's day. That calls each little pattering foot From dance and Pong- anil livelong play; Their day that in our wider light Floats like a silver day-moon, white, Nor in our darkness Rinks to rest, But Bets within a golden west. Ah, tenderhour that sends a drift Of children's kisses through the houe. And cuckoo-notes of sweet "Good-night," That thoughts of heaven and home arouse; And a soft etir to souse and heart. As when the bee and blossom part, And little luet that patter slower Like the last dropianys of the ehower. And in the children's rooms aloft What blossom shapes do gajly slip Their dainty sheaths and rosy run From clasping hand and kissing lip, A naked sweetness to the eye Blossom and babe and buiterlly In witching; one, so dear a sight! An ecstasy of life and light. And ah, what lovely witcheries Bestrew the Hoor! an empty sock By vanished dance and song left loose As dead bird's throats; a tiny smock That, sure, upon some; meadow grew, And drank the heaven-sweet rains; a shoo Scarce bigger than tin acorn cup; Frocks that seem flowery meads cut up. Then lily-drest, in angel-white. To mother's knee they trooping come, The soft-ialmsfold like kissing shells, And they and we go singing home The blight heads bowed and worshiping, As though some glory of the spring, Some datl'odil that mocks the day. Should fold hia golden palms and pray. The gates of Paradise swing wide A moment's space in soft accord, And those dread angels, Life and Death, A moment veil the flaming sword, As o'er this weary world forlorn From Eden's secret heart is borne That breath of Paradise most fair Which mothers call " the children's prayer.' Ah'! deep,'p:dhctie mystery! The world'sgreat woe unconscious hung, A rain-drop on a blossom's lip; White innocence that wooes our wrong, And Love divine that looks again, Unconscious of the Cross and pain, From sweet child-eyes, and in that child Sad earth and heaven reconciled. Then kissed, on beds we lay them down, As fragrant white as clovcr'd sod. And as the upper floors grow huhed With children's sleep and dews of God, And as our stars their beams do hide, The stars of twilight, opening wide, Take up the heavenly tale at even, And light us on to God and heaven. J. E. llopkcns, in JIaemillan't Jlafiazitie. WH. L. MARCY'S ELOPEMENT. AN INCIDENT IN HIS EARLY LIFE. Win. L. Marcy was called to the bar in Octolnr, 1811. Acting under the advice of friends he opened an oflice in Troy, N. 1., and commenced the practice ot 1ns profession. He was surrounded by ex perienced and gifted lawyers, w ho con trolled the honors and emoluments of their profession, l oung Marcy, deficient in those brilliant ana ready talents so au tractive to the public, though possessing erudition and strong intellectual powers, did not at first meet w ith professional suc cess, but, taking an appeal to the fu ture, he patiently awaited the develop ments of time. With great labor and per severance he perfected himself in those old acquirements which subsequently ren dered lmn conspicuous bctorctlio world as a lawyer, Judge, diplomatist and states man. Among the charac teristics that distin guished the early days of Mr. Marcy's professional life was carelessness in re gard to dress. Though he was not, like Martin G rover, accustomed to appear in dilapidated attire, still he held fashion and her votaries in contempt. II is boots were often left for weeks w ithout polish, and his hair, to say the least, never ap peared in Hypcriau curls, and w ithal, by casual acquaintances, he was regarded as a very dull and inactive young man. But his personal appearance was in his favor. He was slightly above the ordinary height, "stout and masculine, but not gross; his forehead bold and full, his eye brows heavy, his eye deep-set and expres sive, his mouth and chin firmly molded. His manners were affable and courteous, free from pretense yet dignified." He was easy, pleasing and graceful in conversa tion. In really refined and cultivated cir cles young Marcy, notwithstanding his indifferent attire, was a favorite, though coxcombs attempted to make him the sub ject of raillery. His office was in asmsui one-story duhu ing, surrounded by a railing or veranda. Directly opposite his oflice there was a fashionable female seminary. In pleasant weather he would seat himself on the veranda, with his feet elevated on the top of it, and in this position watch the gam bols of the young ladies on the play ground of the school, or engage in pur suing his favorite studies. His unpol ished boots thus conspicuously exhibited were often the subject of merriment among the fair students. Though young Marcy was wanting in those external qualities constituting what is called a "la dies' man," his society was by no means distasteful to the fair sex, especially to those who had the penetration to under stand the real beauties of his character and to appreciate his abilities. Among the more advanced pupils of the seminary was a Miss Dubois, a young lady from Springfield, Mass., an heiress and very beautiful. Marcy had frequently met her at the residence of a lady friend in Troy. For some time a respectf ul friendship ex isted between her and the young lawyer. She was pleased with the graces of his mind, the variety and extent of his knowl edge, the superiority of his intellect. There was a charm in his conversation which unconsciously revealed the mental resources of the future statesman, stimu lating intelligence in others. Miss Dubois possessed that charming versatility that belongs of right to woman the faculty of suiting her tine intellect to all whom it encountered of so tempering her subtle wit with feminine grace as to exempt her from enmity or malice, and that pride which is the necessary result of superiori ty she wore easily and gracefully. There were those elements in the friendship le tween young Marcy and Miss Dubois which naturally ripen into deep attach ment and ardent love ; yet, singular as it may appear, there was no affair of the heart blended with it. But those who were aware of their intimacy, not under standing its nature, naturally put another construction upon it, and a report reached the cars of the faculty of the seminary that Marcy was an accepted suitor of MUs Dulois. "The rules of the institution strictly forbade the young ladies from re ceiving any attention from gentlemen; and the parents of the lady had strongly en joined upon the faculty the enforcement of this rule in regard to their daughter. Therefore, the report of her relations with the young lawyer caused an unpleasant sensation in the seminary, and Miss Dubois was strictly forbidden to have any further association with Marcy. The re port even reached her father, who hastened to Troy, determined to remove his daugh ter from the seminary. But her explamt tion of the matter was sufficient, and he returned home satisfied that all reports connecting the name of his daughter with Mr. Marcy were groundless. A few weeks after her father's visit Miss Dubois obtained permission to visit Al bany with some friends. Some time after her departure it occurred to one of the pupils of the seminary, who had inter ested herself in the affair of Miss Dubois and Mr. Marcy to quite an extent, that, al though the day was delightful, the young lawyer had not been eeen in his accus- 3 fcillurm 8 Kjuarefi. K coliimo. column. 1 column. $1 00 $1 Ml f2CO f i.Vt '$5 00 S00 f H U Q-.i U 9a 111 Hli 1fl life 4 V. H Hi 13 0o ft in. u riii lit fui!1t rwi Oil IMI . fill R-i H on ti (hi n no is 011.45 40 no! fc is on is on a on ur no 40 oo ti no too nr fy All AdvertL-lng Mil due quarterly. C?fT" Transient advertisement mut he paldfii In advance. Extra copies of the IlEKALn for mlo hy II. J. Strelplit, at the Prwtotflcc, and O. V. Johnon, cor ner of Main and Viflh atreel. tomed place on the veranda of his office. On making rroper inquiry she learned that lie had not been there at all that day. This aroused her curiosity and excited her suspicions, leading her to make further inquiry, ami she was informed that lie hud accompanied Miss Dubois to Albany Without further considcrationshe believed that an elopement had taken place, and immediately informed the faculty that young Marty and Miss DuIhus had lied to Albany for the iunwe of being clandes tinely married. This aroused them to the highest pitch ol excitement. 1 he rumor ran like wildfire through the institution, reaching the city in a short space of time. There was a strange " huriying to and lro ' in the seminary consternation was everywhere mingled with the silent mirth which the affair had created among many of the young ladies who really enjoyed the scene. Cupid had slyly found a lodg ment within those walls, dedicated to science and study, tnough all thought the littlu winged god was sternly forbidden there to many known only in the beautiful dreams of girlhood. Yet he had actually been a so journer in that temple of science; one of its fairest inmates had yielded to his witchery had fled to his enchanted bow ers. Fearing that Ihe wrath and influence of the young lady's father and other friends would be turned against the institution, and dreading the odium w hich an elope ment would bring upon it, an immediate pursuit was ctcided upon. The Sheritf of the county, with a poxsc roimtatim, was sent in pursuit and proceeded in hot haste to Albany. learning that the lady w asut one of the principal hotels in the city, he rushed thither eager to forbid the bans before it was too late. ,S'r ceremony he forced his way into the ladies' parlor. Miss Duliois was there enjoying herself with her friends, but, to the astonishment of the Sherilf, young Marcy was not pres ent. The ollicer had entered the room sternly determined on breaking thechains that, love had forged with the strong arm of the law. He had anticipated tears, cries ami shrieks from the lady, mingled with deep curses from the lover. But no ardent lover was there no priest about to pronounce the solemn but happy union could be seen. The lad' and her friends, taken by sur prise at the sudden entrance of the Sheriff and his assistants, started to their feet in alarm. One of the ladies present sum moned courage enough to demand of the ol'icer what he meant, by this intrusion. Confused and embarrassed by the awk ward position he found himself in, he said : "We we have that is we want to find Lawyer Marcy and Miss Dubois. We are told " "lam Miss Dubois, sir. As for Mr. Marcy, I have not seen him to-day. What do you mean, sir?" " Why, the people at the seminary said that you and he had gone oil together to to get married, and " " And so they sent you in pursuit of usr I suppose. You will not arrest me on mere suspicion, will you?" " AVc had to obey orders, madam. I have a warrant against Mr. Marcy for ab duction that is, for carrying you oil' for they made that out before the Justice," said the officer. The deep, clear, silvery laugh of Miss Dubois in which her companions joined rang through the room at this announce ment, while the Sherilf and his assistants, rinding themselves "sold," as the saying is, retired, greatly chagrined at their sin gular adventure. It happened that short ly after Miss Dubois and her friends left Troy Mr. Marcy, having business in Al bany, proceeded to that city alone by stage. Having transacted his business he returned home alone, as he came, to the surprise of the citizens and his friends, who verily believed he had eloped with the pretty heiress. His own astonishment was unbounded when informed of the commotion and excitement he had uncon sciously caused at the seminary, especial ly when he learned that, during Ihe day, it was believed throughout the city that he had absconded with a clandestine mar riage in view; that for the time being he had abandoned the law for Gretna Green. Nothing could exceed the mortification of the seminary nt the useless and ludicrous excitement they had produced. For a long time this eloement made much merriment in all circles lxth at Troy and Albany. None, however, enjoyed the joke with a keener rejish than Marcy and his fair friend. At length she graduated and returned to her friemLs, leaving the young lawyer to phxl on toward the fame that awaited him. In the course of time Miss Dubois married a highly-respectable citizen of Boston, w ith whom she lived in great hap piness and prosperity. With the lapse of time honors accuaiulated upon William L. Marcy. lie was elevated to the Ik-iicIi of the Supreme Court of the State of New York. lie occupied the guliernatorial chair, and afterward became a member of the United States Senate, and then Secre tary of State in the Cabinet of the Presi dent of the United States, gaining honors as Minister of State which few of his predecessors had attained. While a Sen ator in Congress he attended one of those splendid receptions given by a distin guished oflicial to the heads of depart ments, Senators, members of Congress and other eminent persons entitled to an invi-1 tatiou. In the course of the evening a lady whose beauty, accomplishments, fascinating manners and reputed wealth attracted much attention in the fashiona ble circles of Washington approached Mr. Marcy. She was leaning on Ihe arm of a dignified and courtly gentleman. " Senator," she said, with a graceful salu tation, " I cannot reist my desire to re new an acquaintance with you, once the source of great pleasure and profit to me. Do you not recognize in me an old friend?" "Certainly I do. You are, or rather were. Miss 'Dubois. I am delighted to meet you again ; nothing could give me greater pleasure," said Mr. Marcy, after a moment's hesitation. "Permit me to introduce to you my husband, Mr. D . of Boston," said the lady. " Mr. I) ," she continuiil, "this is the Hon. William L. Marcy, whom you know so well by reputation. He is anold friend of mine." I once eloped w ith him ; but I trust 3'ou will forgive him, as you have me, for it was only an indiscretion of our youth." "Such elopements are easily forgotten, Senator," said Mr. D , " especial ly since the one Mrs. I) alludes to has afforded us a fund of amusement from our first acquaintance." "It was so well managed that neither of us knew anything about it until it was all over," said Marcy. The story of the elopement soon found its way into Washington society, where it w as the subject of much merriment. " Marcy." said President Jackson at one of his receptions at which Mrs. 1) and her husband were present, "Marcy, bv the Eternal, if I had ln en in your place I should have given full occasion for the report of an elopement w ith that splendid woman. Why did you not?" "Because, Mr. President, 1 had my eves on a still lovelier woman the future Mrs. Marcv," was the reply. "Ah, that was all right; an 'excellent explanation," said the 1'residcnt Buffalo Courier. The average contributions per mem ber for foreign missions in the Presbyte rian Church were, in 1S70, altout eighty seven cents. In 187" they appear to be but seventy-eight cents, a falling off of nine cents per head. SESE AM) 0.SE.SE. Tons of peaches have been dried in Utah this season and lire now awaiting shipment. The Wisconsin Indians prophesy a mild winter, because the bears are not seeking their winter sleeping-places. In Ceylon largo ajw's are now regularly employed to pull cocoanuts. They are said to select suitable fruit with great dis crimination. A man can carry $i0 in his vest jmk k ct, but a woman needs a morocco porte monnaie, as large as your list and tto heavy to be carried in a poi kel, to escort a lifty-cent scrip. "Thk fashion of putting wclL4 on the sides f pants is revived," says a fashion exchange, and little Charley says he hopes the fashion of putting wefts on the seals of ltoys' pants will soon go out. Iktrvit Xtr. This is the roughest conjugal cxm. rienco on record : In a Brooklyn divorce suit, the husband, who was Superinten dent of a liorse-car line, alleges that his wile is employed as a "spotter," and that through her inlluence he was turned out of his berth. Sri .Miii.iNci into his room he sat down on the edge of the bed and soliloquized thus: " Feet wet, tight biMits, n son- on one hand an' a felon on t'other, and no boot jack in z' house. Sings got to be difrent. K'ther I mils' get married, else gel a itooi jack; which shall I do?" A woman in Minneapolis recently as tonished a crowd who were trying to start a balky horse by thrusting a handful of dust and sand into the animal's mouth, exclaiming: " There, he'll go now." To the surprise of every one the horse started immediately without showing the least stubbornness or excitement. Wintkr is approaching, and the weary householder, Ihe last thing he does before lie goes to bed, stands in the kitchen d'or, and, looking out into the gloomy night, wonders w hether he had better put his trust in Providence and go tubed, or sit up all night out on the back fence and watch his wood-pile. A II AitThonn man recently got a piece of tough meat lodged in the lower part of the esophagus, making breathing dillleult and threatening inflammation, and was treated by Dr. Ellsworth, of that city, who killed a number of dogs, and w ith the gastric juice of their stomach coatings succeeded in dissolving the piece in' the course of the day. A naval Board of Inquiry, in session at Washington, is said to have discovered gross frauds in the contracts tor lurnish insi shoes to the Marine Corps. The soles of the shoes are filled with a mince-meat ol broken felt and chip, covered with leather about the thickness ot blotting paper. The shoes last only fourteen days. The joke on the enlisted men is that in cse the shoes do not last well one dollar is deducted from their scanty pav. That fat baby in Milford, Conn., has had his Photograph taken. The picture shows him naked, and seated too fat to tumble over. His legs and arms are huge collops of llesh, ami his abdomen is a sight to see. His big cheeks and lirmly-lilled head complete a face w hich wearsan expression like a man's. He was six months old when the picture was taken, and his weight then was thirty-six pounds a weight determined not even " in Ins stock ings." Hartford Time. An Oregon exchange lately came out with the assertion that all the ladies in town were wearing "Government socks." The agonized editor tore all the hair out of his head, shot seventeen holes in Ihe compositor and chased the proof-reader into the mountains with a shot-gun. jh: then slipped back in the night and barri caded himself in his ollicc, where ho spent, three days in talking through the key hole to the enraged females, trying to convince them that he wrote "Garibaldi sacks." It is dillleult to say what good results may not come from the successful experi ment made in shipping peaches from this country. If we can jjUip peaches, wny not other perishable fruits? 1 his fact es tablished, our fruit grow eis find a vast market opening up to them. To supply London alone must require the product oi thousands of acres and furnish employ ment to thousands of people. Buffalo Erpremt. There are more bay w indows in San Francisco than in any other city in the world. Bay windows constitute ils archi tectural specialty. No family can le wilh out them. Every litth; cottage has them. The Palace Hotel has over WH) trout rooms with bay-windows. Every front room on two sides and for eleven stories in height has a bay-w indow, and by one conesxindent it is described as presenting the appearance of an enormous collection of dove-cots arranged in ranks and tiers one above another. The report of the Australian Bailway Commission recommends the construe, lion of thirty-one lines of railway, in bid ing in all l.-ito' miles. Of these eighteen me regarded as of pressing importance, their total length being 21 miles. Ihe Government, as may be gathered from the Treasurer's statement, has resolved upon carrying out eleven of the lines, the ag gregate length of which may be roughly set down at .";'() miles. As the sum of 1 ,!K)O,000 is to be borrowed for these railways, it follows that the average cost per mile is expected to be something un der '1,000. Slang is not alw-Tys so slangy ns it seems. The expression, "And yet I am not happy," is unjustly banished from many excellent homes because the cult ured people who live in them abominate slang and see nothing but coarseness and silliness in that common phrase. And yet it is not slang, but a line from Kich lien's soliloquy in Bulwer's great drama, net third, scene first : Iliave'hed blood but I have had no foe Save those the State had if my wrath was deadly 'Tis that I felt my country In my vein, And smote her sons as Brutus emote his own. And vet 1 am not happy. Jinrlinrfton Jfnrk-Ajf. A f ! enti.em A N living up the bay says that, a negro man with his wife and four children w i re forced to take to a tree to save themselves during the late storm. The tree 6wayed to and fro with the vio lence of the wind and threatened to fall with its heavy burden. The old couple concluded that some one must !x; sacri ficed to save the rest. After a consulta tion the old woman said hlie w as not pre pared to die and urged the old man to drop himself into eternity. But he, too, wasn't ready, and the m alter was compro mized bv launching the two youngest children "into the surging w aters. A few hours after they were icscued, and the old negro told the story himself to those who saved him. (Jaltenton (Tex.) Xtirs. ada. -Icicles have begun to sprout in Can- The various annual conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church meeting this fall elect delegates to the General Conference of next May. Several of these IwmIics have pass-d resolutions ask ing for la' delegations in the annual con ferences as well as in the General Confer ence, and in favor of making the office of Presiding Elder elective. The elders are now apitointed by the Bishops. It is worthy of note, as show ing the conserva tive attitude of bivmen, that the Michigan Lay Electoral Conference, at its recent session, rejected r solutions favoring lay delegations iu the annual conferences. i m G u.vt.ston is now in f ivor of the tied back style. Galveston, in fact, wants the tide buck permanently.