Nebraska Newspapers

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AT
PLATTSMOUTH, NEBEASKA.
On Vine St., One Block North of Main,
Corner of Fifth St.
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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!
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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
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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.
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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-
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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.