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    THE HERALD.
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PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA.
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VOLUME XL
PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1875.
NUMBER
THE HERALD,
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( All AJvcrli.-intf bill due qa.irti rljr.
f Tninricut till vt-rib--m um imi'l be pnldfuf
ill I'.llv.UK'O.
rrfra cnpl"" of the lifiiAi n f ir aln Ty II. J.
tSi-viirhl. at Oio I'fvti'tl .!, nii'l O. 1''. Jol.ii.-oii, tor
Her of Alain and V 'fill i lixi lu.
:-S E M R Y BCHCEC,
DEALLP. IX
vuii?xiituTTe,
SAFES, CHAIRS,
Lounges, Tables, Bedsteads,
TU., XTC, ETC.,
Of All Descriptions.
METALLIC BURIAL CASES.
Wooden CofTiriH
Cf 11 sizes, ready-uii'lf, and cold cheap far cai'a.
xVitb many thanis for pat patronage. I lnTite
til to call and nautili tny
LAItdE fTOCK OF
liii'iiilm-o (iiid OoflliiN.
MEDICINES
AT
J. H. BUTTERY'S,
Main Street, bet. Second and Third,
VTliolesalc anl Retail Dealer in
Drugs and Medicines, Paints, Oils,
Varnishes. Patent Medicines,
m
Toilet Articles, etc.. etc.
I ff "PRESCRIPTION'S carefully coniponndcd at
all hours, day and night. 35-ly
II. i. WATERM.IX & SON,
"Wholesale aod Retail Dealer in
PINE LUMBER,
Lath, Shingles,
BASE, DOOES, BLINDS. ETC.,
On Ilain St., cor. Fifth,
TLATTS-MOUTir, . - - NEB.
STILL BETTER RATES
For Liiiribei?.
WINTER STOCK
H. A. WATERMAN & SON.
WE '.VIM. SKI. I.
Hram" I.iuulcr, of nil kind, at syiO lcr M.
I-'irtl iiulily ol I'oii-Iii:r, at Si per M.
quality ol" I'oim ln:r, at 1 7 per M
Firnt iiality ol' Hoard, al 'JO per M.
. on l quality ol" Hoard, at 17 p.r M.
Mar "A" SI.IiiIok, s:t..'0 icr ."!.
o. 1 Miinslt-M. $i.ZO ir 31.
Olher iirailcr of Luhi'iht cci'ially fh-ap, with
Doors, Sash, Blinds, Etc., Etc.
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FOR YOUR GROCERIES
;o To
J.V.WECKBACH
Cor. Third and Main St?., nattr-imuitli.
(Guthnianu's old Kland.)
He keeps on lmud a lar-c and wcII-SlIci ted
fctock of
Fancy Groceries,
COFFEES, TEAS,
Sugar, Sirup,
ETC, ETC.,
Also a Largo Stock of
DRY GOODS
Boots and Shoes,
CK0CKEUY, qi EENMYAHE,
Etc., Etc., Etc.
In connection with the Grocery i a
BAKERY and CONFECTIONERY.
IIitrhc-.t I'ri.e Iall for Country I'rmlurp.
A full stock at all times, and will not be undersold.
Take notice of the Sin:
"EMHRE HAKEKY AND GUOCEUY."
nlyl
WILLIAM STADELMANN
Ilaa on hand on of roa largest torts of
CLOTHING
AND
Gents' Furnishing Goods
FOR srr.IN'O AND "VMMER.
I inVit iverybo'1? in want of anything in my
line to call at tuy atore.
South Side Main, bet. 5th & Gtli Sis.,
And conrinca themelvr of th fact. I bare a a
ppeciai'v in my lii'la'il Keparlmenta nock of
Vine C'liithins for Men and Buja, t which we in
Ti'e thoo vb " ant ood.
I a'.-n keep on hand a lare and we!l-f elected
lock cf
Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, Etc.
Jarlyl
FLATTSMOITII MILLS,
fLATTSMOUTH NEBRASKA.
Cokbap IIbhei, Proprietor.
FLOUR, CORN MEAL, FEED,
alwaja on tnd and for sale at lowest casa price.
Tha Higieet Price paid for Wheat and Cora.
Pal tical&r at UhUob giren to ctutona wo; k-
O. F. JOHNSON,
DCAIXU IN
Drugs, Medicines,
AnD
WALLPAPER.
AHPapsr Trinifflsa Free ofCiane
ALSO. DEALER IM
Books, Stationery
AITD LATEST PUBLICATIONS.
JSSTrescrlpt'.ons carefully eomponnded by an
experienced Drnryiat. art
REMEMBER TFIB PLACE
Cor. Fifth and Main Streets,
PLATTSMOUTH, NER.
Machine
Shoo
.IOIIN WVY3rYIV,
rLATTSMuUTn, NEB.,
Repairer of Steam Enginss, Boilsrs,
Saw and Grist Hills.
GAS AND STEAM FITTINGS,
Wrought Iron Pipe, Force and Lift Pipes, Steam
Gaiief, Safety-Valve (iovi rnors and all
kinds of lira Engine Fittings re
paired on short notice.
Fann maoliiziory
Repaired n Short Notice. 4!-yI
Sowing
Machmes !
NEW, IMPROVED L0CK-STITCH
GROVER & BAKER
FOR SALE X1Y
CHARLES VS ALL,
With all the Extras and Attachments,
such as Needles, Oil, Tuckers,
Binders, Etc.
Tho-e who contemplate, bnviii1' a machine will
do well to -rive the tirover it linker a trial. Sat
infantum unarjinteed. and the cln'iipeet machine
in the market. All orders by mail promptly at
tended to. Addn-in
imii CKAELES VIALL, Plattsmouth, Neb.
First Monal Bant
Of Plattsmouth, Nebraska,
8CCCE9SOR TO
Tootle, I Iciim:v &, Clnrlc.
Jon'V FlTZOFRALD
K. J. I'ovr.v
A. W. Mi-Uniiiux
John O liiiiKt
President.
...Vice-Preirteut.
Cashier.
.AL'tant Cashier.
This Bnnk Is now onen for buine at their new
room, corner Main and Sixth street?, and are pre
pared to transact a general
BANKING BUSINESS.
Stocks, Bonds, Gold, Government
and Local Securities
BOUGHT AND SOLD.
Deposits Received and Interest Al
lowed en Time Certificates.
DRAFTS DRAWN,
Available in any part of the T'nited State and in
all the Vriucipal Towns and Citie of Enrope.
AGENTS FOR THE
CELEBRATED
INMAN LINE and ALLAN LINE
of rj :v3ii :u.
Persons wishing to bring out their friends from
(Europe can
riT.rHASB TICKETS TKOM US
Tlironrli to llntt!irioiitli.
Excelsior Barber Shop.
j. c. jiocSr:,
Main Street, opposite Saunders House.
HAIR-CUTTING,
Shaving and Shampooing.
ESPECLXL ATTENTION GIVEN TO
Cult in? Children' and r,adic
XI air.
Call and See Boone, Gents,
And get a boon in a
3r js xx
nll-ly
GO TO TliiC
Post Office Eook ritoro,
H. J. STEZIGHT, Proprietor,
roR TOUR
BoQis. Stationery, Pictures, Music.
TOYS, CONFECTIONERY,
Violin Strings,
Newspapers, Norels,
Song Books, etc., etc
TOST OFFICE BIILM.VG,
PLATTSMOUTH, KEB.
CUKREXT PARAGIiAPlIS.
The New IFamrhire I'roliiljitioni.-Ls
Lave nominated A. J. Kendall for Gover
nor.
The iron-clad Scrapia, with the Prince
of "Wales on board, reached Uombay on
the 7th.
Thomas A. Doyle (Hep.) has been re
elected Ma3"or of l'rovidcnce, li. I., for
the tenth time.
The President lias appointed John A.
Raymond Postmaster at Vieksbtfir, Jliss.,
in place of Henry li. Pease, suspemieil
under the Teuure-of-Oflicc act.
The new Jlinncsota Ix'gislatnre will be
composed as follows: Senate Republi
cans, 24; Opposition, 17. House He
publicans, Go; Opposition, 41.
The new Territorial Legislature of
Colorado will be commuted as follows:
Council Republicans, 4; Democrats, i).
House Republicans, 1J; Democrats, 10.
Tim large number of 21,1:58,000 postal
cards were issued by the I'ostotlice De
partment during the month of October,
being 5,000,000 more than during any pre
vious month.
The vote in Massachusetts for Governor
at the recent election was as follows:
Rice (Rep.), 83,523; Gaston (Dem.), 78,
210; Baker (Pro.), 8,005; Adams, 1,774;
Phillips, 301.
The First Comptroller of the Treasury
has disallowed the claim of the State ol
Nebraska for $53,938, being 5 per cent,
on the value, at $1.25 per acre, of the esti
mated quantity of Indian reservations in
that State.
The Republicans in "Washington fired
100 guns on the evening of the Gth in
honor of the victories claimed by them at
the elections on the 2d. The l'resident
was serenaded at the Executive Mansion,
and responded in a brief speech.
The Grand Jury in the United States
Court at St. Louis has indicted Win. 31c
Kee, ene of the proprietors of the Globe
Democrat, and Constantino JIaguirc, late
Revenue Collector, for conspiracy to de
fraud the Government of its revenue in
connection with the whisky tax.
A five DOLLAn counterfeit National
Bank note purporting to have been issued
by the First National Bank of Galena,
111., has been discovered in the Redemp
tion Agency at Washington. There is no
such bank in existence. The note was
evidently altered from the plate of the
Traders' National Bank of Chicugo.
The crew of a shipwrecked vessel w ho
had been thrown upon a small island oil"
the coast of Cuba have recently reached
New York and report that while on the
island they found the decomposed remains
of four men, who had built huts and were
evidently a part ol the crew of an iron
ship which appeared sunk near the shore.
They had probably died of starvation.
The following Congressmen were elect
ed on the 2d: First Massachusetts Dis
trict, Wm. W. Crapo (Rep.); First Missis
sippi, Louis (J. C. Lamar ( Dem.), re
elected; Second, G. Wiley Welles (Rep.);
Third, II. 1). Money (Dem.); Fourth, O.
R. Singleton (Dem.); Fifth, C. K. Hooker
(Dem.); Sixth, Roderick Seal (Dem.);
Thirty-third New "York, Nelson I. NorloL
(Rep.)-
TnE committee appointed by the Con.
gregational Association of Ministers to in
vestigate the ciiarges against Mr. Beecher
is composed as follows: Rev. Win. Tay
lor, of the Broadway Tabernacle, New
York; Rev. Dr. William Ives Budington,
of the Clinton Avenue Church, Brooklyn;
Rev. Profs. Parsons and Martin, of the
New York Theological Seminary, and
Rev. Charles II. Everest, of the Church
of the Puritans, Brooklyn. Plymouth
Church has referred to a committee the
charge made by Mrs. Moulton against Mr.
Beecher.
31. Barthoux), umpire of the Amer
ican iind Spanish Claims Commission for
the settlement of claims of citizens of the
L'nitcd States against Spain for wrong
and injuries committed against persons
and property on the island of Cuba since
the commencement of the present insur
rection, has recently rendered his de
cision, by which Joaquin G. Deangerica,
whose property was embargoed in 18(i'J
and restored to him in 1873-4, is awarded
$748,180, with interest; Pedro S. Isiolicra
gets $3,000 and interest for sixteen days'
imprisonment.
Di king the last fiscal year there were
issued by the Postoflicc Department 107,
01(5,000 postal-cards, of the value of $1,
070,100. The estimate of the number for
the next fiscal year is 154,037,000. The
mimlier of public or ordinary postal
stamps issued to Postmasters during the
fiscal year was 082,312,770, of a value of
$18,271,470. The value of newspaper
postage and periodical stamps was $815,
002. The numler of ofiicial stamps is.
sued to the executive departments was 18,
405,000, of a value of $834,070. The total
number of stamps of allJtinds issued was
073,275,025, of a value of $25,477,511.
The increase in the number of ordinary
stamps is about 10 per cent. The in
crease, including official stamps, is about
7 per cent. The postage-stamps sent
through the mails by registered pouches
to Postmasters numbered 350,402. Of
this entire amount there were lost but ten
packages, of an aggregate value of $250.
There were mailed to foreign countries
12,500,000 letters. Of these, 100,200 were
returned undelivered. The number of
letters received from foreign countries w as
11,800,000, of which 210,100 were re
turned undelivered.
A statement has just been drawn up
respecting the losses occasioned by the
Hoods in the south of France. It appears
that 1,(545 communes, situated in twelve
departments, suffered more or less. In
the Haute Garonne, the losses exceed 42,
000,000 francs; in Lot-etGaronne they
arc 14,84(5,8H) francs; in Tarn-ct-Garonne,
12,437,S03 francs; in the Ariege, 5,240.000
francs; in the Haute Pyrenees, 9,200,000
francs; in the Gironde, 4,074,000 francs;
in the Gers. 3,310,000 francs. The total
loss is 100,003,714 francs, of which 43,
000,000 francs are capital, and 57,000,000
francs for crops and property, divided
among 127,817 rersons.
m
Under the new Constitution the Legis
lature of Nebraska is required to fund the
entire State debt at its nest session.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
At a business meeting of Brooklyn Ply
mouth Church on the evening of the 4th
the names of Deacon West and Mrs. Frank
D. Moulton were dropped from the roll of
membership on the ground of continued
absence from the services of the church.
Mrs. Moulton was present at the meeting,
accompanied by her counsel, Roger A.
Pryor, who read a protest signed by Mrs.
M., in which she reiterated the charges
against Mr. Beecher, which she said she
knew to be true by confessions made to
her by Mr. Beecher and Mrs. Tilton. It
was reported in Brooklyn on the 5th that
the New York anil Brooklyn Association
of Congregational Ministers had appoint
ed a committc of its meralers to carefully
examine into the charges against Mr.
Beecher and report whi ther the associa
tion ought to retain him in its member
ship. Three of the ftir counts in the in
dictment against II. B. Claflin cv Co., ol
New YorK; lor complicity in silk-smug
gling frauds have been sustained by Judge
Benedict.
The London stink market was greatly
depressed on the Olh in consequence of
the publication of the fact that Austria
had garrisoned the frontier forts and was
making ready to take a hand in the Turk
ish troubles.
It was reported in London on the 7th
that 30.000 Servian militia had assembled
on the frontier and that Servia had sent
an agent to Paris and London to negotiate
a loan.
A pcow capsized at St. Familie, Canada,
during a recent severe snow-storm, and
seventeen persons were drowned.
The Prince of Wales was tendered a
magnificent reception at Bombay on the
bth, which was participated in alike by
natives and Europeans. Over 200,000
people took part in it.
Accokdixg to a recent Singapore dis.
patch the Malays have organized for the
purpose of attempting the eviction of the
British.
It w as stated in London on the 0th that
the great powers had determined to ak
Turkey whether she has any guarantees
to oiler for the fulfillment of her often
broken promises of reform.
A Washington special of the 8th says
Secretary Bristow was refusing in all
cases to compromise with the illicit dis
tillers and whisky-dealers who had been
detected in their frauds upon the Govern
ment revenues in Chicago, St. Louis, Mil
waukee and elsewhere, his reply invaria
bly being that the only possible compro
mise is through the courts. Several more
Chicago parties implicated in the frauds
gave bail on the 8lh. The last of the in
dicted distillers of St. Louis Jouette
pleaded guilt3' on the 8th, making thirty-
three pleas of guilty in that city.
A San Franc isco dispatc h of the 8th
announces the total loss by foundering at
sea of the steamship Pacific, running be
tween Portland, Ore., and San Francisco.
Ol 250 persons on board only one was
known to have escaped. The surv ivor
Henry L. Jelly was picked up by the
American ship Messenger after having
floated on the pilot-house from eight
o'clock on the morning of the 4th until
fen o'clock on the morning of the (ith. lie
sLttes that several lxats were launched
from the lost vessel, but all wereswamped.
A carle telegram of the 0th states that
a Ministerial crisis had occurred in Tur
key, and the Turkish Ambassador at
Vienna had been summoned to Constanti
nople to assdme the Ministry of Foreign !
Affairs.
The majority for Bigelow, Democratic
candidate for State Treasurer of New
York, was estimated on the 8th at about
18,000.
The attendance at each of the Moody
and Sankey revival meetings in Brooklyn
on the 8th and 0th was very large, and an
unusually earnest religious sentiment was
manifested. Several requests for prayers
were read.
The steamship City of Waco, which ar
rived at Galveston, Tex., on the 8th from
New York, loaded with oil, anchored out
side the harbor and was discovered to be
on fire at one o'clock on the morning of
the Oth. There were forty-eight persons
on board the vessel, eight of whom were
cabin and twelve steerage passengers.
There was a heavy wind at the time of
the fire, and the vessel was" soon burned
to the water's edge and sank. Great un
certainty existed on the Oth as to the fate
of those on board, some reports being to
the effect that they had taken to the boats
and drifted out into the gulf, a heavy j
gale prevailing at the time; but a dis
patch from Galveston on the morning of
the 10th says the impression was gaining
ground that they had all perished on the
ill-fated vessel.
Henry R. Mann, for fifteen years Treas
urer of Saratoga County, N. Y., is said to
have proven a defaulter in the sum of
nearly or quite $150,000.. A paper-collar
manufactory in which his son was inter
ested has failed, and is supposed to have
absorbed a portion of the missing funds.
A recent New York dispatch states
that the order of United Irishmen Redivi
vi had tried another one of its members
for treason and condemned him to death.
Patrick J. Walsh is the alleged traitor,
and makes the third person condemned.
A London telegram of the Oth an
nounces the receipt of additional letters
from Stanley, giving the conclusion of his
examination of the shores of Victoria
Nyanza. He 6ays the great lake is one
body of water, and not a series of small
lakes, as held by Dr. Livingstone.
By a special decree, issued Nov. G, Rus
sia has annexed that portion of Khokand
lying on the' right bank of the Syr Daria,
from the Russian frontier to the River
Narcen.
According to a London telegram of the
10th the war in Malacca had assumed a
religious aspecL
Several additional failures at the East
were announced on the 10th. Among
them were the firm of James Wickham A:
Son, commission merchants of New York
city, and F. Gcedowskj-, an extensive
furniture-manufacturer of Boston.
A second survivor of the crew of the
steamer Pacific was picked up at three
o'clock on the morning of the 8th, thirty
miles inside the Straits of Fuca. He was
floating on a raft, from which he says
Capt. Howtll had been wa&hed off and I
drowned. The name of the rescued man
is Neal O'Haley. He says the Paciti
was struck by a vessel under full sail.
Two boats got away from the wreck. Five
dead Inxlics had also been recovered up to
the 8th.
The clothing factory of Cook & Son, in
Staffordshire, England, was burned re
cently, involving a very heavy loss and
throwing (500 persons out of employment.
According to the French Finance Min
ister's report to the committee of the As
sembly the revenue of France since the
commencement of the fiscal year had
been $22,000,000 in excess of the estimates.
A very severe earthquake-shock was
felt in portions of Missouri and Kansas
early on the morning of the Kuh. At In
dcjcndcnce, Mo., several brick buildings
sustained considerable injury, and dishes
were thrown from shelves. The citizens
were aroused from sound slumber, think
ing.their houses were falling. The sh(x.k
felt at Topeka and elsewhere in Kansas
was equally severe.
A singular accident occurred at the
Detroit (Mich.) Pullman car works on the
afternoon of the 10th. A large air-tube,
six feet square, extends from the base
ment to the roof to carry up the dust of
the planing-machinc tyrthcruiola. While
twelve or fifteen men were sweeping
dust from the cupola down the tube to
be carried away, the line particles took
fire from smoldering embers near the
foot of the Hue and exploded with a
burst of llame, which burned several of
the men fearfully, some of them danger
ously.
Cable dispatches of the 11th state that
heavy storms had prevailed in France and
England during the preceding week, and
vast tracts of country were threatened by
the rising floods.
A Constantinople telegram of the 1 1th
sa) s the Sublime Torte had ordered the
districts of Trebigno, Biletz and Piva to
be detached from Herzegovina and organ
ized as a separate department, to be placed
under an Arniinian Greek Governor.
Ji st after taking a warm bath at the
Capitol in Washington on the 10th Vice
President Wilson was taken suddenly ill,
and his friends became considerably
alarmed at his condition during the day,
but his ph3-sician reported him as much
improved in health on the 11th, and
thought he would speedily recover.
AccoRDixr; to a Milwaukee dispatch of
the 11th Ludington (Rep.) for Governorof
Wisconsin would have a majority of about
000. The balance of the Democratic
State ticket is elected by majorities ranging
from 150 to 300 except Kuehn for Treas
urer, who would have from 2,500 to
3,000.
An explosion of fire-damp which oc
curred in Marialiayc collier', in Belgium,
a few days .ago, resulted in the death of
ten persons and the serious injury of 100.
TnE New York Slate Senate will con
tain 21 Republicans and 11 Demo
crats; House, 08 Republicans and 00
Democrats.
Forged tickets purporting to have
been issued by the Illinois Central Rail
road at Chicago, and to be good for a
passage from Chicago to Denver, by the
way of St. Louis, were offered to a ticket
agent in New York city, on the 10th, for
sale at a reduced price.
THE MARKETS,.
November 13, 1S75.
MaW YORK.
Lite Stuck. Peer Cattle 10.1X)3l:J.J3. Horb
Lite, $c.O0S Wi. Sheep live, $1.jXJo.50.
EBEiiiin rrs.-Hoiir Uoorf to choice, $.70
6.10; h te wheat extra. fK.13ij8.00. Wheat
No. 2 Chican", $1.6 tI.2T; No. '-' Norlhct
crn, $1.'-G(7?,1.2T; Nc. 2 Milwaukee cprins, $1.30
1.31. Itye Western aud State, 8.")!-'c. Bar
lcy $1.Cl1.10. Com Mixed W'ectern, 710
76c. Oate Mixed Western, 4!4jc.
Provisions. Pork Mes, 33i37i4??.-S.r:0. Lard
Prime Steam (New), 12(13c. Cheeee 0
12C.
Wool. DoireHlic Fleece. 4(gfi:c.
CUICAGO.
Litb Stock. Bee ves Choice. $5.5026.01;
good, $1 50.35.2.',; mecium, 10K14 50; butch
rs stock, $i.:03;3 .75; ftock cattle, fi.iiyH
3.75. IIo;s Live, $7.40 7 !K). ishiep - Good to
choice, $ 1.2534.75.
Provisions. Batter Choice. 30.:c. E
Frexh, 2:(f?.21c. Pork Mcca, $2n.73a21-00.
Lard-$ll.90SftU.ll2v4.
I5RAWTprrs. Floor White Winter Extra
$5.75CI-S.00; spring extra, 3.87!-JfV.0. Wheat
Spring. No. 2, $1 t8(2.1.f8 -4- Corn-No. 2,
l'if?33!Jc. Oats No. 2, Sl'St&l'Nc. By e No. 2,
fi6V467c. Barley No. 2, SlJ-JfVSic.
Limber. First and Second Clear. $1200
45.00; Common Board, $10.i,O6?.12.OO; Fencing,
$11.5012.00; "A" Shingles, $i.753-3.00; Lath,
$I.7E3.2.1.
EAST LTBEHTY.
Live St ck B cc Feet, 6 0;6 .V); me
d urn, $5 CO j 5.25. IIo,f Yr. e s, $7.1027 6);
Philadelphia?, $7 80 j8 0,1. Sheep Peot $4.V3
5.00; medium, t4.23!34 50.
FACTS AM) FIGURES.
Tckkey pays annually in the neighbor
hood of f 00,000,000 as interest on its
debts.
Three thocsand and seventy-five
persons committed suicide in Prussia
during last year; 2,527 were men, 54
women. Strangulation and drowning pre
ferred ; others not quoted.
Germany, with a population of 42,000,
000, hist year graduated 000 physicians,
rejecting 108 applicants. In the same
time the United States, w ith a population
of 40,000,000, graduated 0,000 physicians.
A Fkench statistician estimates that
from the leginning of the present century
more than 1,000 persons have perished by
fires in theaters, while the pecuniary loss
by the same class of conflagrations amounts
toatxmt $(;0,000,0O0.
The Delaware and Maryland peach
folks figure up that they have canned
400,400 baskets of peaches this season, and
dried 100,588. Reduced to cans the ag
gregate consumption of the canneries of
the Peninsula would yield 3,251, 728 three
pound cans, and the quantity dried is
equivalent t more than 250 tons.
" Life is short; let father and son spend
their lives together," was the message
which the wires carried to a fond father
from a tvelve-year-old son who had grown
homesick at a boarding-school. The son
arrived at home and was conducted to the
wood-shed, where life for the next ten
minutes seemed to him an eternity. He
is now at schoofagain, willing yes, anx
ious never to be alone with his father
again.
Mr. Henry B. Blackwell, husband of
Antoinette Brown Blackwell, has leen
making a calculation for the purpose of
ascertaining w hat addition would be made
to the voting power of Massachusetts by
triving the ballot to women in that State.
He finds that there are in the State 285,410
native-lnirn women and 101,432 of foreign
birth w ho would be entitled to vote if the
distinction in respect to sex were removed,
making a total of :)s,848. The number
of males in the State who are entitled to
vote is 307,200, and the result will be if
the women vote that they will outvote the
men by a majority of nearly 20,000.
Story of the Snrtivor of the Steam
ship Pacific.
San Fiiim ico. Nov.!).
A dispatch fiom Port Towusend this
evening saj-s:
Henry F.'jelley, supposed to be thesolc
survi vorof tlie Pacific, brought here yester
day by the ship Messenger in a wretched
condition, having leen on a raft thirty-six
hours before ln-ing picked up, fays the
Pacific collided with some other vessel,
whose lights he saw, but in his interviews
witlt Gilkey, Captain of the .Messenger,
lasting twelve hours, lie made no mention
of the lights of the vessel, and some think
him laltoring under hallucination as to
that. Experienced na igators here think
it more 1 ikoly that she. struck a sunken
rock. J el ley makes a statement to the fol
lowing effect :
Took cabin passage on the Pacific from
Victoria, leaving about a quarter past nine
on the morning of Thursday, the 1th
inst. There were about 200 people on
board. Steamed all day against a
southeaster, the crew constantly pump
ing water into the Itoat.s to trim
the ship. The ImuUs abaft the paddle
boxes had no oars in them. The others
had about eight or nine. In the evening,
while in bed, heard a crash and felt a
shock as if we had strut k a rock. Heard
something fall as if rocks had fallen on
the starboard bow. The bell was struck
to stop, back and go ahead. Went on
deck and heard voices say: " It's all right :
we have struck a vessel." Saw several
lights at a distance but do not think they
were colored; but paid little attention.
Returned to the cabin and noticed the
ship took a heavy list to port. Went on
deck to the pilot-house and heard some
one say : " She is'making water very fist."
The Captain was coming out of his room.
Asked him if there were any blue lights
or guns, lie said the blue-lights were in
the pilot-house. Got them and burmd
five. Noticed the engines still working,
but there was no one at the wheel. Went
to the starboard side forward of the paddle-box
where a number of men were
trying to get the long-boat out, but
could not. Went to the port-boat for
ward and helped five or six women into
it. Tried to get the boat off, but could
not move it. There were about twenty
women in it. Heard the loats aba 11 the
paddles had got oil, but did not see them.
Think it was about an hour after the
steamer struck when she listed so much
to po'rt that the boat was in the water. I
was in that boat. Cut loose from the
davits, when the boat filled and turned
over. Got on her bottom and helped sev
eral up with me. Immediately after the
steamer seemed to break in two fore and
aft. The smoke-stack fell and struck our
boat, and the steamer sunk. Think about
all the women were in our boat, and fear
they were all drowned when the boat
upset. This was about ten in the even
ing. The night was not dark nor the
sea very rough, but a fresh breeze
sprung ui) aflerward. Left the bottom
of the lxat, and, with another man,
climbed on top of the pilot-house, floating
near. The next morning 1 got some life
preservers, floating near, and with their
ropes lathed mj-sclf and companion to the
house. Saw three rafts; the first, had one
man on it, the next had three men and a
woman ; could not make out the other for
the tlistance, except that there were people
on it. Think we were thirty or forty miles
south of Cape Flattery when the vessel
sunk. Passed the light on Tattoosh Island
lietween four and five in the evening. My
self and companion were on the pilot
house all of Friday until about four p. in.,
when" he died, and 1 cut hi in loose. The
sea was running very high nil day, the
waves washing over us. Soon alter be
died I sighted a vessel. Called, and heard
the people on the olher rafts calling, but
the vessel did not come near. Friday
night we had but little wind, but in the
morning the wind and sea rose. Was then
within a mile of the shore of Vancouver
Island. Sighted two vessels on the Ameri
can shore, which passed on. About ten
o'clock Saturday forenoon the Messenger
picked me up.
Jclley stated, informally, that there was
no terror or confusion on the part of the
passengers, and that if the boats could
have been launched and properly manned,
the sea being comparatively smooth, all
would have been saved.
The statement of Neal O'Haley, Quar
termaster of the Pacific, rescued by the
revenue-cutter Oliver Wolcott on the
morning of the 7th, is to the effect that
there were over 200 people on board the
lost steamer. He says :
I saw a large vessel under sail, which
they said struck the steamer; saw her
green light distinctly. The passengers
crowded into the boats against the com
mands of the officers. 1, with the chief
engineer, got a port boat forward into the
water and got fifteen women and six men
in her. She was capsized by the rolling
of the ship. I saw none of them after
ward. I supported myself by a floating
sky-light about fifteen minutes, and then
got on a portion of the hurricane deck
with some eight others. On looking foi
the steamer 1 found she had disappeared,
leaving a floating mass of human beings.
The screams for "help were fearful but soon
ceased, and we were alone on the raft.
There were the Captain, second mate,
second cook, aud four passengers, in
cluding a young lady. At one o'clock
the next morning, the 5th, there
blew a gale from the southeast, the sea
making a clean break over the raft. We
lashed ourselves. About four a. m. the
sea washed overboard the Captain, second
mate, the lady and another passenger.
About nine a. m. the second cook died.
It cleared up at alout four p. m. I saw
land fifteen miles distant, and a piece of
the wreck with two or more n it. About
five p. m. another died. On the morning
of the 6th another died, leaving me alone.
About four p. m. a large, empty box floated
niar me. Got it on the raft for shelter,
and slept soundly that night several hours.
On the morning of the 7th saw land on
loih sides and was surrounded with float
kelp, which made the water smooth. It
continued calm all day and night. At
three a. m. I was rescued by the cutter.
m
Report of the Commissioner of Inter
nal Revenue.
Wa.hinoton, Nov. 11.
The Commissioner cf Internal Uevenue lias
completed hi report for the fiscal year ended
June 30, P75. The document is very volum
inous. ItEVF.Ni n rot: Till UTEEN VEAHS
The report shows that the actual tunount
of receipts into the Treasury from all pourevs
from and after June :'), 1W1, to June SO, 174,
exclusive of loans and Treasury notef , was
as follows:
CuMoine $l.!)7i.710.P-;7
Internal revenue 1.9."i.:kM.72:j
Direct tax ll.M0.1:i
Pnblic lands 2.iM..tr,s
Miscellaneous iiJS.OS ,b-3
Premium on loans and alcs of
gold coin l'J2,5'7.117
Total - $4,J ,6 J$,11
THE TWO LAST FISCAL TEAKS.
The collections for the noul year ended
June 30. 1)574, were 102,m.74: for the year
ended Jane M, 175, $1 10,545,154. The iu
erease during the last liseul year is owing
in part to the increa.-c of the du
ties laid by the act of March lt75,
upon distilled spirits, manufactured tcbacco,
cinars, cigarettes and in part to taxes collect
ed undr the laws repealed, extraordinary
ftlorU having; been put forth to collect de
linquent taxes due from banks and banker?,
railroad and other corporations and taxes
due on incomes, legacies and successions.
WHISKY AMI TOr.ACOO.
A fsljtement is siiven showing the receipts
under thu act of March 3, 175, up to and in
clusive of June 30, 1ST5, from ditr.-rent ar
ticles subject to an increased tax, showing
the total tax returned $o,203,SlS. The tax
returned upon diatilled spirits was 51,77 y,7W.
UEf'El ITS IIV STATES.
The net amounts received from it 1 1 source
of iiitt riial revenue: during the. hist liseul year
in the several Sl.itos is f;iv'n ns follows:
Aliilmnia $11t.Slt, Mi-'omi $t,r.'r.STi
Aiiz'Oi.i lo.-'i :! Montana :!.
Arkansas 7 '.s N clr:i-ka '.I.'.ITJ
Culi.iri:i i S.'lSJ.Vi Neuila M.I 17
Colorado 70.VM N. Iliimpsliirc r s.h a
fiililieil iclK . . li ."-J."J"- New .li'l-ev. . . 2, -. i S
Dakota I'vUo Now Mexico.. ! .'."
Delaware 3u.:-:il N.tw Yoik 1 .'S
D. l'i'iiT!i!ii:i, 111.' -j: N. Ca-olimi... 1 .i N.tflU
l-'lcriil i ISi.r,'', nhiii 1 . ;. .!",
'ir'ia as;',j.",i urt-on 4V.'.i.S'l
lilnlio 1 . 1 -Sti l' imevlv.iiiia. ti.l .!. I I
lllitifin 17,li.'7.ii S, Kin il Island . 2:1!. 7 7
Indiana - .'i.".".s-: s Carolina... l.li.HIS
Iowa l.oi.'.Oti' Teiiiicssee S-O.'UO
Kaiif-as 1:11, :r l' s is 54-7 ! H
Kentucky !i,o-j.m.:im I tali :o.m: j
Louisiana :St.l.M Vermont (S Vi
Maine Hr.- til ir-inin 7,''!V"''
Maryland ,7')r-,S asliiii-tou . . '.'1.1 I
M.it-'s.ii liMse Is -'.i'.ti.ilif West Virginia. ros.ijsi
.Michigan.. . . I, 'i.t',.V I, Wisconsin 2 V-'o s:,s
Mimiesoia . . . i."-J.s.:ln ; joining. ... Il,!'l:
Mi.-.i-Mlli . . . !ii,0S5i
IUSTI I.I. Kill F.S.
The number of distilleries registered dur
ing the year was 4,7".5i, ami the number
operated, 4,IH)S. Of the number opera'ed i;.";
were irrain distilleries, seven molasses distill
eries and ;;,'.M5 fruit distilleries.
The Coiinniscioner suys public attention
has been often called within the p.it few
months to the extensive frauds committed In
certain localities upon ttie revenue by distill
ers and rect'lii'is of distilled spirits, lie
gives an nceount, tir.-t, of the checks, iruanls
and protections airaiitat frauds established
bv law; second, of the maimer in which the
whisky frauds, so-called, lately exposed were
perpetrated upon the (iovertiment ; third, the
extent of these frauds; fourth, t!iO checks
recently established to prevent a recurrence
of the same, and, fifth, suggests legislation
which, in his opinion, is necessary to insure
a fuller collection iu future of the taxes up
on distilled spirits.
The Commissioner gives it ns his opinion
that the only law necessary is one that shall
make the requirements as stringent mid the
penalties for defrauding tlio Goernmeiit as
severe in the case of the rectifier as they
now are in the case of the distiller. The
rectifier should be required to uive a bond
iu au amount eipial to the tax represented by
all the spirits he can possibly rectify each
month. The house and tract of land upou
which the establishment is located should be
forfeited to the United Slates in ease of fraud,
lie should not be allowed to handle any
spirits at his reetifying-housc except those
he purchases lor rccliticution and tells
under rectifiers' stamps. L'mler the present
system of delecting frauds ut least thirty
days must elapse before discovery could be
made and guilt fixed. As the apparatus iu u
rectifying-iiouse capable ol rctiumg the
quantity of spirits upon which the tax would
amount to $IOO,iKK) a month may not he worth
more than $10,00, it will readily be S':en that
under the present law, which only foifeits
the apparatus and tpirits owned by him at
the time of seizure, a rectitier may a;d in de
frauding the (iovrnoicnt of JflO't.OOU and
foifeit only $10,000. 15y absconding to a for
eign country he also escapes criminal punish
ment. The Commissioner is firmly of tins opinion
that the present large tax upon distilled spir
its can be collected with but small his:j. '1 his
opinion is based upon the fact that every
Storekeeper, (iaugcr aud employe who is con
nected with a difUllery where fraud is perpe
trated becomes a pensioner upon the distiller.
If, theicfoie, distillers be kept under such
strict surveillance that the amount of money
gamed by fraud is not sullicieiit to pay a large
corps of ollicers and workmen in necessary
collusion with them to consummate fraud,
they will, as a mutter of policy, be honest.
As an indication of the extent of the frauds
above described the Commissioner reports
that documentary evidence is in possession
of his ollice which lias warranted the seizure
of i distilleries and 157 rectifying houses, and
implicated over 50 l'nitcd Stales tiauge.rs and
Storekeepers, 'lhis evidence also shows the
issue between July 1, ls7I, and May 1, 17 5,
of fraudulent spirits, by duplication, of '),Ott)
packages, containing probably l.MOU.OOU proof
gallons, and by aid ot false gauging to the
additional amount of 1,000,000 proof gallons.
This, he says, is hut a portion of the fraud
actually committed, but in itself indicates
the los of tax to Government in ten mouths
of an amount not less than lJoOXW.
FEItMENTKO I.KJCi I!S.
The receipts from all buiirces relating to
fermented liquors for the liscal year were
$'.),H 4.O01, u decrease of ltj0,(i7. as com
pared with si 1. Tito number of hievtcro
maiiuf.icturiiigfcimeiilcd liquors is L',7-s4.
The Coinmissii m-r ixpicss.s luil confi
dence in the stamp system for the coil.elion
of revenue.
The number of cases compromised during
the year is 714, and the amuuul received by
compromise $1.),570.
'lOHACCO.
The total receipts from tobacco were (s)7,
3015,401, an iucieusc over 171 of $ I.UiO.os,
and an increase over any previous lUcal year
of $-,'Jl7,1.S. the total amount of tax col
lected on tobacco aud siiul! from Sept. 1,
lNii, to June lib", 175, is f-i5,:;,ait). The
total collections on cigars, cheroots and cig
areltes the tame time, is srtsj;;;;,-,;. It is ex
pected that during the current year the as
sessments of tax on tobacco will be largely
increased. The whole amount of taxes as
sessed during the year was S,:i!S0.tX:J; in
crease over the previous year, 41,4:5.
OTULIl STATISTICS.
The quantity of distilhd spirits in ware
ho"hsc July 1, 174, was 17,755,Mi'J gallons;
distiiled spirit produced ilui ing the year,
(K,!:W,4 '.: gallons; total, 7S,0X -I'M ; total
wilhdinwu, (M,:;r.i,Ul, h aving in bjl.d June
00. 1S75, ll5,:;07,ia. Sj ii its removed from
warehouse lor export for the year ending
June o0, 1S71, 4,000,100 gallons, w hiLe only
57,413 gallons were thus removed daring the
last liscal rear.
The quantity of tobacco removed Tor ex
portation in bond without paying the taxes,
'j,17'J,315 pounds, a decrease of 1,021,011
pounds.
OTH F.K KECOMMF.NDATIOSS.
The Commissioner says the foiee of rev
enue agents is i ladcquate and recommends
the passage of a law authonii g fifteen
more. He thinks further consolidation if
collection districts can be made without af
fecting the revenue, and that the system of
gauging wholesale liquor-dealers' packages
by t'nited S la ten (iauers can be disponed
with and a simple! syrtem of checks by stain. s
substituted, which will prevent overissue.
He recommends making the violation i f
the law relating to friction matches a crimi
nal offense, punishable by tine and imprison
ment. He also desires that internal revenue
agents be empowered to demand and obtain
the inspection of books and papers of distill
ers, rectifiers, brewers, wholesale liquor
dealers and manufacturers of tobacco, mull
and cigars.
The Commissioner estimates the collections
f the present fiscal vear from all sourc :s of
internal revenue ut $1',000,'X)0.
The Explorations or Stanley In Africa.
The New York Herald Nov. 10 pub
lishes a telegraphic synopsis of letters re
ceived in London from Stanley. He says
Dr. Livingstone was wrong in reporting
that the Victoria Nyanza consisted of five
lakes. Spcke correctly states that Victoria
Nyanza is one lake, but spike's two
islands are peninsulas. The Kiver Shi
inecyu is the principal feeder of the lake
and txtremest source of the Nile yet dis
covered. Stanley had several conflicts w ith sdavo
dcakrs on the lake. On one im casion he
was attacked by. 1(K) natives, armed with
spears, in thirteen canoes, who were re
pulsed after a severe light. Three natives
were killed.
He arrived at the Utcsal hunting-cump
at Nisayura April 12, where the King di
rected extraordinary festivities and dis
plavs. One feature was a naval review
on the lake of eighty-four canoes, manned
by 2.500 men. On the second day, iu ad
dition to the naval maneuvers, there were
races in which eighty-four canoes were
engaged? each propelled by thirty oars
menrthe King leading the fleet personal
ly, in the presence of a great crowd of on
lookers, including the 300 wives of the
King. On the third day there was bird
shooting and target-prat f ice by ,000
troops, and on the fourth day he returned
to Mtes-is, the capital. This King has
2.000,000 subjects. He is a Mussulman,
lias great intelligence, and his dominion
affords the liest augury for the possible
civilization of Africa.
Chicago, at the end of the year, w ill
have 10,000 more houses than at the beginning.
hLWSE AM) Ao.si;.si:
Gold has been loiiud on a f irm in Mil
bury, Miiss., but in very mm ill quantities.
Mcoi'V speaks 220 words a ininulc, they
say. W hero is the woman whocaulie.it
it r
Tmxas farmers will plant double the
amount of small grain next year that lin y
did last.
One man in ( 'otor;td. Ins :i r.mi !i f.'tj
miles long uild 2'i.OOO head of'catt.'culiii h
cost only S:7 apiece.
Tiik present population of Washington
Territory is 30,000, an iucieascof neatly
5,KM) Win ing Hie last two y ears.
Senator A ntlion y, ol' Khodc Island,
owns two thirds of llie I 'i idemo J.'r
inll. Last year the paper i 1' .ut d ;0,0OO.
Tiim dairymen of Sonoma County, Cab,
have received au average of thirty -fivo
cents a pound for their butter iluriiig tho
past season.
Tmkuk is no economy in purchasing
half worn implements. They will lie con
tinually out id' order. The first wear is
always the liost.
Tin: man who doesn't read the adver
tisements in a newspaper is like tin- trav
( !er wlio passes along a strange road with
out consulting the guide-boards.
An Indiana I id who Ins jitsl fini hi 1
reading his Uiblc through announces flu
discovery that the Words "boy-,'' mid
"girls" occur in it only twice.
Tiik Emperor of Japan liasjmt had tin'
life portraiis of himself and wile painted
and put up on the vvali of his imperial
palace Jlke other eivillC't potentates.
A Canadian started on: for a walk the
other day, iu company wi:h alighted pip"
and two pounds ot gunowder. How
ever, it's too late to remedy the misfortune
now.
Tiik Marquis de Conti recently fell dead
while kissing a CoUiitc:--s. It's uu excep
tional ca--e, iiowcvcr, and there's no use of
getling frightonel about it. I'ring on
your Countesses. llrh-, t r ( 'hronirle.
Tiik propcr-bcha cd lillle girl, who is
afraid she has not quile got her lesson,
iny be seen on these glorious ntitumit
davs going to school wi'h a gi.'anlie red
apple in her hand fr the teacher. lhta.
bury A' irs.
Tiik Supreme Court of New York has
got to decide whether in its opinion, de
rived from the testimony of experts, the
lactometer, whose use is made imperativn
iu New York t ily, will tell -kiinmed milk
from unskimmed.
Tiik experiment is to be made of propa
gating ostriches iu California, for which a
well-known menagerie proprietor has
bought 100 of the birds, which he will lo
cate n a suitable tract of land lil'lecn miles
from San Francisco.
Si.ito r. IJatkswiis kicked while making
his Canadian trip ves, sir, actually
kicked with a cow-hide boot! Shall Can
ada be made to pay for thi", or shall we
pty Canada? Let's have an understand
ing. Jlttrott Free J'irn.
Tin: Cttzttt?, of St. Joseph, Mo., states
that there is one sheep iu Mont 'ornery
County, Mo., that hasn't been killed by
dogs. He is a rain, and uses his head as
a sort ot' horizontal pile-driver. A pack
of fox-hounds got alter him the other day,
and he killed all but one and came out
without a scar.
It is uot generally known that the Treas
ury Department imploys two learned and
skillful chemists, one of w loon is constant
ly engaged in fabricating indelible inks,
w hile the other devotes his talents to wash
ing out the inks, and thus I. ir chemistry
has devised no ink which chemistry can
not cllace.
AnotTlwo weeks before the late fire
a man, supposed to be crazy, ap
peared in Virginia City and pro
claimed that the place was soon
to be destroyed by lire. They thought
him a falsi' prophet and laughed at him;
probably imw they think him an incen
diary, and would "put him through" if
they could find him.
A WKITKIt in UltrlirihhV places the
annual consumption of fish in London at
SOJMM) tons, without taking into account
the va.-t quantities of lieriing, mackerel,
sprats and li.-h caught by lines, drill m Is
ami seines. Dm inglhe inonilis of IcIoIht
and November, or what is termed the
coster-monger's li-h sea-on, W)0,OO0,OO0 of
herring are disposed of in the .'(nets of
London alone.
Old South Church, of Boston, dear to
the whole country from associations with
Hcvolulioiiary days, cannot, by a decision
of the Supreme Court of Massachu-,ells,
be sold. Its owners, a church soeiely,
wauled a more conveni nl site find pro
posed to sell it for bu-iiiess purposes. A
few of the more patriotic inembi rs pro
tested against its sale and carri' d the ease
into the courts.
I'imi.. Su KitiD an imbibed, in his trip to
the West, some far Western ideas, which
la-gin to show themselves. Tiicy told hini
on the Western slope that time was no
team so good as a span of mules, and sim e
his return to Chicago he lias porelix-i d
and drives in one slashing team four big
black mules. His wife went with him
one day, and was so moi titled at one o 1
them yi e-haw ing on the Mreet that tdie has
ever since refused to ride. lhtrit I'rce
PrexH.
Tiik Williams te Guion Steam-hip
Company undertook to in ike the tjuickcvt
time on record in crossing the Atlant.c
with the Dakot It left Liverpool Sept.
30, in the face of a heavy wind, and was
run at its highest rare of speed. When
about 30 ) miles outof (biecnstown the iron
plates in lront of the iiiichV-dcck were
beaten in, the forward hold soon filled and
a panic seized both crew and passenger",
who united in begging the Captain to
put about. He icfuscd, the crew muti
nied, when he was forced to return to
(lueonstovvu.
Thomas J. M( Gi ooiikoan, the man
who has In-en condemned to the death of a
traitor for divulging the secrets of the
order of L'nitcd lri-liinen, L'edivivi, in
New York, must be in a pleasant frame of
mind. It is all very well to say that m
authority but that of :he Stale can con
demn a man to death; iicvcrtbch.-s it is
anything but conducive to oneV pence of
mind to feel that any organization has each
of its uu inbers solemnly pledgi d i' kill
one at the lir.-t M-erct opportunity. It "ill
probably have the cf!c t to keep Mr. Mc
Ouoghegaii at home nights for a season.
Jhtrolt Tribune.
" Yotr see," said a paper-carrier in lan
Franc i.'t-o, " I don't take a backseat to
no man in this town in bindin' a paper
ju.st where's it's wanted. Up on Stockton
street there is a little French woman who
hangs a parrot out in a cage from J.er w ii -Jow
every afternoon, and when I sling
the paper up it fulls on the ledge above
the cage, and the parrot grabs it wi'h his
beak." She can t read a word of FngVr-b,
but she takes the. pp( r because she likes
to see me sling it an-uiid fo lively. I
never missed but once, and that w as one
foggy day last w inter, v hen 1 suppose I
didn't ir.itkc proper calculation lor the
condition of the atmosphere." "l'shavv!
that ain't nowhere," chimed in another,
" I've been terving a morning newspaper
all along to a man who's never h it his
bed for seven years. Got the rhcumati-.
There's a hole busted in one of the win
dows .bout two inchi s wide, and it's two
stories high. I shoot it up thnm'di that
slit at twer.lv minutes past five every
niornin'. and ft strikes him in the tace
and wakes him up. On these- dark
niorninV, when there's a high wind, it
takes some livrghtv lively calculation to
hit ike plate just right. One n.ornm' I
dropped it on the foot of the bed and
didn't wake him, so l.e stopped the paper
next day."