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THE HERALD.
FCBLLSHED EVEEY THURSDAY
PLATTSMOUTH, NEBBASKA.
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On Vine St.. On Block North of Main,
Corner of Fifth St.
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VOLUME XI.
PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1875.
NUMBER HO. '
THE HERALD.
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ner of iUiu aud Ktftti trix-u.
HENRY BCEC.C,
SUUB IX
Fn:rnitmie9
6AFES, CHAIRS,
Lounges, Tables, Bedsteads,
rro., BTO., KTO.,
Of All Descriptions.
METALLIC BURIAL CASES.
1 1 1 11 1 " 1 r 1 1 ' t," j mi" 11 i"7i 1
Wooden CofTina
Of all Blxca, ready-made, and aold cheap for etia.
With many thanks for paat patronage. I Invite
all t call and examine my
LA RGB STOCK OF
XTurnituro and CofllnM.
Jan2S
AND
MEDICINES
AT
J. H. BUTTERY'S,
Main Street, bet. Second and Third,
vTholeiale aud Retail Dealer In
Drugs and Medicines, Paints, Oils,
Varnishes. Patent Medicines.
Toilet Articles, etc., etc.
flTTRESCIlIPTIONS caref ally componnded at
all hears, day and night. 35-1 y
II. A. WATERMAN & SON,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers In
PINE LUMBER,
ILatXi, Shingles,
SASH, DOOKS, BLINDS, ETC.,
On Slain St., cor. Fifth,
PLATTSMOUTH, - - - NEB.
O. F. JOHNSON,
STILL BETTER RATES
WINTER STOCK
or
H. A. WATERMAN &. SON.
WE WILL SELL
Frame Lainber, of all kind, at SfiO per M
Klrat quality of Fenclnsr. at 20 per M.
Second quality or FoiK insr, at 17 per M
Flrt quality of lloardi, at 20 per M.
Krcond qiialtty of HoanU. at 17 per M.
Star "A" Shingles, $3.oO per -M.
Pio. 1 Slilnsle. $2. 5( per .11.
Other Grades of Lumber equally Cheap, with
Doors, Sash, Blinds, Etc., Etc.
FOR YOUR CROCERIES
CO TO
J.V.WECKBACH
Cor. Third and Main Sn., Flattemouth.
(Gathmann's old stand.)
lie keeps 011 hand a large and well-selected
stock of
Fancy Groceries.
COFFEES, TEAS,
ETC, ETC.,
Also a Large Stock of
DRY GOODS
Boots and Shoes,
CROCKERY, QlEEXSWAllE,
Etc., Etc., Etc.
In connection with the Grocery is a
BAKERY and CONFECTIONERY.
Highest Price Paid for Country Produce.
A fall etock at all times, and will not be undersold.
Take notice of the Sia:
"EMPIRE BAKERY AND GROCERY."
nljl
WILLIAM STADELMANN
Has on hand one of fas largest stocks of
CLOTHING
AND
Gents' Furnishing Goods
TOR STRING AND 'VilMER.
I larlte STeryboy in want of anything In my
lino to call at Buy store.
South Side Main, bet. 5th & 6th Sis.,
And conTlnco thema'lre. of tbs fact. I hare as a
ppecialir in my Hrtall Departments a stock of
Pins Clothing for Men and Buys, to which we In
vito thoa who want goods.
I also keep on haad a largo and well-eelectcd
lek of
Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, Etc,
jarlyl
mi
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KXTTSMOUTH KZSSASKA.
Ooxsap Hsissl, Proprietor.
FLOUR, CORN MEAL, FEED,
Always oa band and for sale at lowest caanprtcie.
Tbo Highest Price paid for Wheat and Cora,
Pardtalar atWnttcB gira to cojtom rik.
DEALER IIC
Drugs, Medicines,
AMD
WALLPAPER.
AllPaper TriaMFree ofCharie
ALSO. DEALER III
Books, Stationery
5LVGAZINES
AND LATEST PUBLICATIONS.
vr Prescriptions carefully compounded by an
experienced DmrglsLFl
REMEMBER THE PLAC8
Cor. Fifth and Main Streets,
PLATTSMOUTH, NEB.
Machine
Shop
PLATTSMOUTH, KEB.,
Repairer of Steam Engines, Boilers,
Saw and Grist Hills,
GAS AND STEAM FITTINGS,
Wrought Iron Pipe, Force and Lift Pipes, Steam
Uaugen, Safety-Valve tiovcrnors and all
kinds of Brass Engine Fittings re
paired on short notice.
3T" n. x xix niaoliiiiory
Repaired on Short Notice. 49-yl
Sewing
mm !
NEW, IMPROVED LOCK-STITCH
GROVER & BAKER
owinii: Iacliinc,
FOIt SALE BY
CHARLES VI ALL.
With all the Extras and Attachments,
such as Needles, Oil, Tuckers,
Binders, Etc.
Tho-ie who contemplate bnyinn a machine will
lo wull to sive the Grover Si Baker a trial. Sat
isfaciion i;uarHntei-(l. ami the cUeapest machine
in the market. All orders by mail promptly at
tended to. Address
8m6 CHARLES VIALL, Piatt smouth, Keb.
First national Bant
Of Plattsmouth, Nebraska,
SUCCKSSOB TO
Tootle, Ilamia & Oltirlc.
Jons FlTTGERALD
E. ii. D'lVKY
A. W. MrLM'ouMX
John O'Koviike
President.
. . .Vice-President.
Caihier.
.Assistant Cashier.
This Bank in now open for bu-nes at tbe.lr new
room, corner Mnin and Sixth streets, and are pre
pared to transact a general
BANKING BUSINESS.
Stocks, Dorcls, Gold, Government
and Local Securities
BOUGHT AND SOLD.
Deposits Received and Interest Al
lowed on Time Certificates.
DRAFTS DRAWN,
Available In any pnrt of !he Vniied States and in
aJJ the Vrinci'pal Town and Cities of Europe.
AGENTS FOR THE
CELEBRATED
INMAN LINE ai ALLAH LINE
Or JSTIV3L1T.
Persons wishing to bring out their friends from
S a rope can
PL'ncHAS TICKETS TPOH TS
Tlti-tJtili to 1 it t turnout li.
Excelsior Barber Shop.
J. C COOE,
Main Street, opposite Saunders House.
HAIR-CUTTING,
Shaving and Shampooing.
ESPECLVL ATTENTION GIVEN TO
Cut tin.; Children" and Ladles'
Hair.
Call and See Boone, Gents,
And get a boon in a
G 3j 23 .A-2NT SHAVE.
nll-ly
GO TO THE
Post Office Book Store,
H. J. STKEIGHT, Proprietor,
roa TOUB
Bools. Stationery, Pictures, Music,
TOYS, CONFECTIONERY,
Violin Strings,
Newspapers, Norels,
Song Books, etc., etc
TOST OFFICE BUILDOa,
PLATTSStOUTH, SEJ,
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
The official returns of the election in
Oregon give Lane (Deru.) for Congress a
Majority of 2GT.
The Mercantile Bank of Leeds, En
gland, Las suspended with liabilities esti
mated at $ :3.0,000.
A kecent Berlin dispatch 6.13-8 the
number of German exhibitors who had
applied for space at the Philadelphia Cen
tennial was 1,140.
Gen.E. B. IIari-ax, a well-known news
paper correspondent at Springfield, 111.,
and formerl3' !?ecretar3r to Gov. Palmer,
died a few days ago, aged thirty-six.
The Postmaster-General, in his annual
report, recommends the repeal of that part
of the amended Postal laws which in
creased the postage on transient news
papers. United States Senator Ferky, of
Connecticut, died at his residence in Nor
walk on the afternoon of the 21st from
softening of the spinal marrow. He was
fift3'-two 3-ears of age.
A woman with a boy resembling
Charlie Ross M as recently arrested at New.
town, Conn., but afterward discharged.
The child resembled the missing, boy in
everything except the color of the eyes.
The opinion has been expressed by
Atty-Gen. Pierrepont that Ann Eliza,
when she married Brigham Young,vio
lated the United Suites statute, and can
not avail herself of her own wrong, and
consequently has no legal claim for ali
mony. Gen. Sherman, in his annual report,
says the aggregate strength of the line of
the arni3-, according to the last reports re
ceived, is 1,540 officers and 24,031 en
listed men, made up as follows: Five
regiments artille-.TSO officers and 2,504
men; 10 regiments cavalry, 422 officers
and 7,20(5 men; 23 regiments infanUy, 843
officers and 11,000 men. Available re
cruits, hospital stewards, ordnance ser
geants, etc., o,321.
A call has been issued for the Indiana
State Republican Convention to meet at
Indianapolis on the 22d of next Februaiy,
to nominate a State ticket, including can
didates for Governor, Lieutenant-Governor,
Secretary of State, etc., and to se
lect delegates to the next National Repub
lican Convention and nominate fifteen
candidates for Presidential Electors to be
chosen at the general election in Novem
ber next. The State election will occur
on the second Tuesda3r in October.
According to statistics furnished by the
Cincinnati Commercial there is at present
a total of fortj-'two State and Territorial
Granges lit the United States, and over 24,-
000 subordinate Granges, comprising a
membership of about 1,4,"0,000. This is
an increase of 2,000 Granges and about
130,000 members over 1874. The receipts
of the National Grange for 1874 were
229,533, and the expenditures $180,993.
It is estimated that the Patrons have
$18,000,000 cash capital invested in their
various enterprises, which include rail
road and steamboat lines, banks, fire aud
life insurance companies, cotton giis and
mills, packing houses, fiouring-mills, ele
vators, grain warehouses, machinery
manufactories, shipping association,
foundries, tanneries, cheese factories, etc
President Grant has issued orders
consolidating the internal revenue col
lection districts throughout the county.
The changes at the "West and South are
as follows: In Ohio, the Seventeenth,
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Districts are
consolidated as the Eighteenth, C. B.
Pettengill, Collector; the Thirteenth aud
Fourteenth as the Thirteenth, R. C. Kirk,
Collector; Eleventh and Twelfth as the
Eleventh, B. F. Coates, Collector; Ninth
and Tenth as the Tenth, J. R. Swigart,
Collector; Seven tli and Eighth as the
Seventh, C. C. "Wolcott, Collector;
Fourth and Fifth as the Fourth, W.
M. "Wilson, Collector; Fifteenth and Six
teenth as the Fifteenth, J. L. Kes
singer, Collector. In Indiana, the
Ninth and Tenth as the Tenth, Geo.
Moore, Collector; Sixth and Seventh as
the Sixth, Frederick Boggs, Collector; the
Second and Third as the Second, Horatio
Woodbuiy, Collector. In Illinois, the
Second and Sixth as the Second, V. B.
Allen, Collector; Tenth and Twelfth as
the Tenth, James Fishback, Collector;
Eleventh and Thirteenth as the Thirteenth,
J. C. "Willis, Collector; Fourth and Ninth
as the Fourth, John Tillson, Collector.
In Michigan, First and Fifth as the First,
L. S. Trowbridge, Collector. In Arkansas,
the First, Second and Third as the Third,
II. M. Cooper, Collector. In Kentucky,
the Fourth and Fifth as the Fifth, J. T.
Buckner, Collector. In Tennessee, the
Seventh and Eighth as the Eighth, R. F.
Patterson, Collector; the Fifth and Sixth
as the Fifth, D. B. Cliff, Collector.
Bonnets.
Velvet bonnets are in demand now for
full dress, while the felts remain popular
for neglige. Imported velvet hats are
almost all of them designed to be worn
well back on the head; only now and then
is one seen made to come over the face.
Flowers, mostl3- roses, are fashionable as
the face trimmings for these hats, and
ostrich tips, feather ruches, lace and soli silk
are favorite outside garniture. A bonnet
entirely composed of black velvet is nev
er out of st3le, though but few are so
made. "When the lonnet is of black the
trimmings are usually of a cream or gray
color. The long streamers seen on the
majority of the earlier hats remain fash
ionable, but do not occur nearly so often
on the late bonnets. Wings continue to
be much used on felt hats." One seen at
a late opening at Mme. Galonpeau's, al
luded to, furnished a popular arrange
ment of this, garniture. It was a bonnet
of cream felt, oval shaped, with the bor
der turned off all round and .bound with
a wide cream-silk braid ; from the back,
extending round on either side toward
the front, vas placed a wreath of w ings
overlapping each other and shaded from
a ver3 dark brown to the cream of the hat;
on top. near the center, nodded two ostrich
tips of the darkest brown. These wreaths
of wings were seen on several of the im
ported hats. The plush hats revived this
season have been accepted as one of the
favorite modes, and are quite expensive.
The new shades in all materials are large,
with expanded borders, and are much
trimmed with the new braids and feath
ers. JV. r. World.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
gi "When a man to whom you lend
money says he will be indebted to you for
ever you might as well believe him.
In a recent six-daj-s' walking match at
the Exposition building in Chicago, be
tween Daniel O'Leary, the Chicago pedes
trian, and Edward Pa3-son "Weston, the
former walked 303 and the latter 431 miles.
At the conclusion of the match O'Leary
was presented with a gold medal as the
champion walker of the world. He ac
complished 500 miles in 111 hours and 13
minutes, the fastest time on record.
According to the annual report of the
Director of the Mint the coinage of gold
during the past 3-ear was $33,553,903;
silver, $10,070,30S; minor pieces, $230,
373 making a total of $43,334,708. The
deposits were : Gold, $38,530,293; silver,
$16,070,;2G.
On the 22d the jury in the case of ex
Supervisor McDonald, on trial at St. Louis
for complicity in whisky frauds, rendered
a verdict of guilt3" on all the eight counts
of the indictment. Sentence was sus
pended until after the trial of the other
parties implicated.
By the explosion of a kerosene lamp in
a shoemaker's shop at Trenton, N. J., a
few evenings ago six persons were in
jured, and one of them, named George
Ashne, would probabl3' die.
Henry Wilson, Vice-President of the
United States, died very suddenlj'at his
room in the Capitol building in Washing
ton on the morning of the 22d. lie had
just been washed as he sat up iu bed, and
had taken a glass of " bitter water," when
he laid back on his pillow, breathed
heavily for a minute or two and expired
without a struggle, his attendant not realiz
ing the change in the patient's condition
until he had ceased to breathe. A pout
mortem examination siiows that death
was caused by apoplexj-. An official or
der was issued b3' President Grant an
nouncing the death of the Vice-President
and directing the usual testimonies o4 re
spect to be shown b3" the different depart
ments of the Government.
The Carhst offic ial organ in Loudon of
a recent date claims that Don Carlos saved
Cuba aud the honor of Spain, his recent
oiler of a truce to Alphonzo having in
duced the Americans to modify their de
mands. Madrid dispatches of the 23d say that
a large number of Republican S3'mpa
thi.ers had been arrested in that city, and
several had lett their homes to avoid a
like fate. Revolutionar3r and Republican
newspapers were being privately circu
lated. A special from Berlin on the 23d sa3s
intelligence had been received from Her
zegovina that the insurgents had captured
an important fort with all its garrison,
commanding Lubel. Several strong posi
tions had also been occupied in the vicinity-
of Plava.
The trial of William O. Aveiy, late
Chief Clerk of the Internal Revenue
Bureau at Washington, was begun at St.
Louis on the 23d. The indictments against
him charge him with conspiring with
McDonald, Jo-ce, etc., to defraud the
Government revenue.
A Washington special of the 23d saj-s
orders were that da3' issued at the Navy
Department, in great secrec3" , for the fit
ting up of five more iron-clads, making a
total of twelve iron clads which, within
three weeks, had been made read3- for
active service, and embracing nearl3' all
the available iron clads on the list.
The South Carolina Legislature began
itsannual session at Columbia on the 23d.
Alexandre Colin, the celebrated
French painter, died recently at Paris.
By the death of Vice-President Wilson
Senator Thomas W. Ferr3 of Michigan,
President jro tempore of the Senate, be
comes ex-officio Vice-President of the
United States.
The following officers of the National
Grange were chosen at the recent session
of that bod3" in Louisville: Master, John
T. Jones, of Arkansas; Overseer, J. J.
Woodman, of Michigan; Lecturer, A. B.
Smedhy, of Iowa; Steward, A. J.
Vaughn, of Mississippi ; Assistant Stew
ard, Mortimer Whitehead, of New Jersey;
Chaplain, S. II. Ellis, of Ohio; Treasurer,
F. M. McDowell; Secreta-, O. H. Kel
le3 of Kentuck3; Gatekeeper, O. Din
widdie, of Indiana; Ceres, Mrs. J. T.
Jones, of Arkansas ; Pomona, Mrs. God
dard, of Connecticut; Flora, Mrs. Adams,
of Minnesota; Assistant Steward, Miss
Carrie Hall, of Lou'sville.
The Woman's National Temperance
Convention, at its recent meeting in Cin-
cinnati, Adopted resolutions recommend
in s Gospel temperance pra3 er-meetings,
cheap lunch and lodging houses, free
reading-rooms and temperance reform
clubs; urging American women to train
their children to avoid intoxicating liquors ;
expressing gratitude to God that Secretary
Bristow had successfully exposed the cor
ruptions of the whisk3rring, and recogniz
ing the statesmanship of the Postmaster
General in removing from his depart
ment all assistants addicted to alcoholic
beverages. Mrs. Annie Wittenmyer was
re-elected President of the societ3. Among
other matters it was proposed to U-j- to
keep the sale of liquor out of the Centen
nial grounds next 3ear, Mrs. Wittenmyer
remarking that it would require at least
$50,000 to do it, for that amount had been
paid already by a brewer for the exclusive
right to sell his beverage inside the in
closurc. Announcement is made of the death in
New York c ity- of William B. Astor, eld
est son of the late John Jacob Astor, aud
one of the wealthiest men in the United
States. He leaves a fortune of over $50,
000,000. Five children survive him
three sons and two daughters. Deceased
was over eighty years old.
A committee appointed by the Na
tional Grange to arrange a marriage cere
monial reported adversely, and were sus
tained. In the case of Leopold Wirth and
Rolert Kiewert, on trial at Milwaukee for
whisky frauds, the jury have rendered a
verdict acquiting the former and disa
greed as to the latter, standing, it is said,
eight for conviction and four for acquittal.
TriE official count of all the Indians in
the United States places the total number
at 22(5,000, of whom 10,000 are put down
as " civilized," 133,000 as "semi-civilized,"
and 81,000 as " barbarous." This
enumeration does not include the Indians
in Alaska. '
The American residents and visitors in
Berlin appropriately celebrated Thanks
giving Da-. A sermon was preached by
Rev. Dr. Thompson. At the close of the
religious services resolutions were adopted
expressive of sorrow at the death of
Vice-President Wilson and directing that
a telegram of condolence be sent to the
United States.
In his annual report Brig. -Gen. Ben
nett, Chief of the Ordnance Bureau,
United States Arni3', sa3-s the bureau has
for several 3-ears past called attention to
the necessity of an increase to the annua
appropriation for arming and equipping
the militia. ' The annual appropriation
of $200,000 was made in 1S08, when the
population of the countiy was about
8,000,000. At the present time, with a
population of over 40,000,000, the amount
appropriated is still the same, and it is
impossible for his department to meet all
the demands made upon it 13' the States
and Territories. The last official re
port gives the following as the aggregate
strength of the militia of the United
States: Organized, 84,724; unorganized,
3,701,977; and there is little doubt that
were arms and militar3' equipments more
freely supplied the organized force would
be greatl3r enlarged.
On the 23th (Thanksgiving Da-) the re
mains of Vice-President Wilson, lying in
state at the Capitol in Washington, were
visited b' an almost continuous throng of
men, women and children.
It was reported on the 20th that the
Briti.-h Government had bought of the
Khedive of Egypt 1,000,000 worth of
Suez Canal shares, and that the latter had
been authorized to draw on the Roths
childs at sight for the amount.
The French newspaper IjC Pay was
seized on the 25th for reproducing M..de
Cassagnac's speech to the Bonapartists of
Bellville.
It was announced from Madrid on the
25th that Gen. Quesada had captured San
Cristobal, with all the Carlist positions in
the neighborhood of Pampeluna.
A kerosene or fluid lamp exploded in
the bedroom of Mrs. Charlotte Chew, of
Camden, N. J., on the morning of the
25th, and Miss Laura Chew jumped out of
bed, when her night-clothes caught fire
and she opened a window (on the second
floor of the building) and either jumped
or fell to the ground and was So terribly
injured that she died in a few minutes.
The clothes of the mother also took fire,
and before assistance could be rendered
she was so dreadfully burned that she ex
pired during the day, and William Chew,
her son, was severely burned.
At South Bend, Ind., a feyv days ago,
Mr. Murray, editor of the Herald, of that
city, hail a misunderstanding witli a lady
printer and sub-editor in his employ and
discharged her and afterward inserted an
article in his paper offensive to her. She
subsequentl- assaulted him on the street
with a cowhide, which he attempted to
take from her, and in the scuffle which
ensued she was thrown to the ground.
Justice William Palmer took sides with
the girl and Murray also assailed him edi
torial, for which Mr. Palmer on the
22d shot Murraj-, the ball taking effect in
his lungs, inflicting a severe and danger
ous wound.
THE MARKETS.
November 27, 18T5.
NEW YORK.
Livb Stock. Beef Cattle -$10.001S.iO. Hogi
Live, $S.(K)8.12'.i. Sheep Live, $4.(K'(S6.i'.
BRSADsTurrs. Flonr Good to choice, $5.55
6.00 ; white wheat extra, $6.O.V38.00. Wheat No.
2 Chicago, fl.24l-26; o. 2 Northwestern,
tt.U6iai.27; No. 2 Milwaukee sprina, $1.28a
1 3'J. Iye Western and State, e4'J5c. Bar
ley fl.05dl.lSK. Corn-Mixed Western, 75
iTc. Oats Mixed W estcrn, 4344rc.
Provisions. Pork Mess, f 22.2X22.50. Lard
Prime Steam (New), 127i&13c. Cheese 6
12c.
Wool. Domestic Fleece, 4.3365c.
CHICAGO.
Ltv Stock. Beeves Choice, fV50Q.2;
good, $!.50i.2X medium, $t.0OJ4.SO; batch
ers' stock, f 2.75(4.00; stock cattle, $2.75S
3.75. Hog Live, $7.00&7.75. Sheep Good to
Choice, $1 85SI.50.
Provisions. Butter Choice, 28d.12c. E:;?s
Fresh, 21 i25c. Pork Mess, $20.00320.25.
Lard fl2.30ai2.37K.
Brbadstufm. Flour White Winter Extra,
$5.2&7.50; sprint; extra, ft.50S5.75. Wheai,
Spring, No. 2, $1.05ic&1.05.V Corn No. 2, 507i
51c Oats No. 2. 30;4)0c. R?c No. 2,
6b'409o. Barley No. 2, SSSS'.'c.
Lumber. First and Second Clear, $12.00
42.' 0; Common Boards, $11.00(312.00; Fencing,
$12,100.15.00; "A" Shingles, $2.7533.00; Lath,
fl.75G2.i0.
EAST LIBERTY.
Livi Stock Beeves Best, f l.rOGS.SO; me
dium. $5.0i,"i.87K. Hogs Yorkers. $7.00(37.3');
Philadelphia, $7.50(37.80. Sheep Best, f5.253
5.50; medium, $4.753o 00.
Vice-President Wilson's Last Honrs.
Wamiinoton, Nor. 22.
Vice-President Wilson died ver3'
suddenly at 7 ::0 this morning. 1 le rested
well last night, awoke at seven o'clock
this morning, and expressed himself as
feeling bright and better. He sat up in
bed to take his medicine, la3' down on his
left side and expired in a few moments
without a struggle.
It havfng been represented last night
that the Vice-President had so much im
proved that he would be able to leave the
city for the North this week the intelli
gence of his sudden death this morning
fell with startling force and suddenness
nn the community. The Vice-President
seemed on Saturday to be a great deal bel
ter than at any time during his late sick
ness, but 3-esterday he was not quite so
well.
Postmaster Burt, of Boston, called in
the morning and had a pleasant conver
sation with him. Mr. Crossman, of New
York, a literary friend, also visited the
Vice-President on business concerning
his (Mr. Wilson's) unfinished volume on
the subject of slavery. The Vice-President
being in a condition requiring rest
Mr. Crossman retired. The Vice-President
then slept from one to three o'clock,
when he rost:. Mr. Crossman returned
in the afternoon at the Vice-President's
request, and remained until evening.
The Vice-President went to bed at an
ear I3' hour, and slept tolerabby well dur
ing the night. In his waking intervals
he asked for water. About midnight he
cot up and walked around his room.
Then, going to his table, he took up a lit
tle book of poems entitled " The Changed
Cross," with the motto " Not as I will,
but as Thou wilt," and read three verses
from it, one of which is as follows :
Help tie, O Lord, with patient love to bear
Each other's faults, to suffer with true meek
net's; Help us each other's joys and griefs to share,
But let us turn to thee alone in weaknees.
Other verses had been marked in the
book, among them the following:
What if poor sinners count thy grief the signal of
an unchastened will ;
lie who can give thy soul relief knows that taou
art submissive still.
This volume belonged to his wife and
contained a photograph of her and their
son, both deceased. lie treasured it be-3-ond
value and always made it his com
panion, from which he seemed to derive
much comfort.
After reading the verses he spoke with
gratitude of the kindness of his friends
during his sickness, and of the wide
spread sympatic in his behalf.
He then returned to bed, in a happ3
mood, and slept.
At three o'clock this morning he awoke,
complaining ff pain in his stomach. One
of his attendants rubbed it. and, being
thus relieved, he again fell asNep.
At seven o'clock he awoke, remarking
that lie felt brighter and better than at any
time previous. He said he was going to
ride out to-day, as his phj-sician. Dr. Bax
ter, had advised him to do so if the weath
er was fair.
At twent3-nine minutes past seven
o'clock he said he Mould get up and take
breakfast. He then called for "bitter
water," w hich had heretofore been pre
scribed, and, having drank it, he laid
down, with his left side on the pillow, as
if with sudden exhaustion, breathing
heavil3, but uttering no words, and in a
lew moments he died without a struggle.
SKETCH OK HIS LIKE.
The following brief sketch of the life of
the late Vice-President is taken from the
Chicago Tribune of the 2-id:
The lite of the deceased statesman has
been a marked one, and its record is one
that may be profitably studied b- all
Americans. Born in 1S12, in povcrt3', he
was apprenticed to a farmer at ten 3'ears
of age, and served laboriously until his
majoritj-, in 18:$:$. With little opportunity
for schooling, he found the means, even
in those days, when books were not as
plentiful or as accessible as now, to read
a great many volumes of history and
biographj-. As soon as he had com
pleted Ids apprenticeship on the
farm he walked to Natick, Mass.,
where he engaged at shoemaking, at
which he worked diligently, practicing
temperance and rigid economy, until he
had accumulated some $500. He then
tried to improve his limited education by
attending an academy in New Hampshire,
but the depository of his savings hav
ing become insolvent he returned to
shoemaking at Natick. His good habits
and his natural abilities, however, made
him conspicuous among his associates,
and in 140 he was enlisted in behalf
of Gen. Harrison's election to the
Presidency, he making a great many
speeches. From that time to the
present he has been conspicuous in
American politics. He was almost con
tinuous' a member of either one or the
other branch of the State Legislature, and
frequentl' the presiding officer. He was
an active anti-slavery man, and opposed
the annexation of Texas. In 1848 lie left
the Whig National Convention when it
rejected the anti-slavey platform, and
united with the Free-Soil partj-. For
two years he edited an anti-slavery pa
per in Boston, serving also in the Legis
lature. In 1852 he presided at the Free
Soil National Convention in Pittsburgh.
In lSJ he was the Free-Soil candi
date for Governor of Massachusetts, but
was defeated. When the Know-Nothing
organization elected Gardner Governor of
Massachusetts Mr. Wilson was a member
of that part3 but when that party subse
quently rejected an anti-slavery platform
he abandoned it. In 1855 he was elected
to the United States Senate in the place of
Edward Everett, resigned, and continued
b3' successive elections a member of that
body until 187:$, when he resigned to be
come Vice-President, to which place he
was elected in 1872.
A Wild Cow in the Streets of St. Lonls.
A wild Texas cow started 3-csterday at
Fourteenth and Biddle streets and raised
as big a disturbance as would accompany
an earthquake. She drove nearlj- every
one out at the market and disarranged the
butter and vegetable stands frightfully.
Oflicers Helmkamp, Kicker and O'Sulli
van formed in solid column under com
mand of Serg. Shore and undertook to
drive the animal into a stable. Somehow
it appeared there was a mistake about the
part3r that was to do the driving. At all
events, the officers didn't drive the cow.
Finally she started on a tour of the neigh
borhood, rushing at everyone that hap
pened in the way. At Thirteenth and
Biddle she gored Capt. Bischoff's horse.
Then she knocked down a couple of men
and passed on down to Twelfth street,
where a red shirt worn ly one George
Weaver caught her eye. She went for the
shirt, and Weaver ran In the saloon on the
southwest corner. The cow followed and
Weaver had only time to scrabble in be
hind the bar when the beast came slap up
against it. He la3r on the floor and she
couldn't get at him, so she commenced to
paw up the floor and switch her narrative
and toss chairs out the window. While
this was going on the police, who had ral
lied in force, fired a volley of pistol balls
into the saloon. The old cow just began
to get mad at this assault. She turned her
attention to the peelers, and in just two sec
onds the chase passed down Biddle street
and Weaver crawled out from behind the
bar. At Eleventh street the old cow tackled
a car of the Bellefontaine ' line, but failing
to produce an impression she just ripped
open one of the mules and passed on. The
mule died shortty afterward. The animal
was chased up to Mound street and then,
turning back, was finalty brought to bay
at Ninth and O'Fallon streets. A butcher
named Morris McCarthy took an ax and,
jumping into a wagon, drove up leside
her. Watching his chance, he gave her
the edge of the ax between the e3"es,
splitting her skull wide open. The result
was peace and order once more in the
Third District. Several men were knocked
down, but none seriously hurt in the
chase. St. Louis Republican.
How He Was Swindled.
He is a second-hand clothier, and holds
forth in .South St. Joseph. It was about
the hour of ten 3-esterday morning when
he reeled into an adjoining establishment,
fell into a chair, weaved his hands into
the tangled locks of his gray hair, and,
rocking back and forth, moaned out:
" O dear! O dear! I ish ruined."
" Vat is the matter, Jacob?" asked his
sympathizing brother in the trade, bend
ing over him.
' You remember dat coat vot I paid six
bits for on yesterday ?"
"Yes, I remembers him."
"Just now a man from the country
comes in and asks me how much for dat.
I tells him dree dollar; and would 3011 be
lieve it, Moses, he puts his hand right into
his pocket and pays the full price without
a word" Here he lowered his voice to
the lowest w his per " So help me gracious,
Moses, I believe he'd paid me five dollar,
just the same."
"Jacob, how you vas swindle 3'ourself."
" Dat vas vot makes me hate mine-self
so much aa never vas."
And the old man limped back into his
own establishment, and doubled all his
poods at first call. St. Joseph (Jo.)
Gazette
" Lovest thou me?" asked a Minne
apolis swain of his last year's girl. " Not
much I don't " was her emphatic replj-.
" Then death is my best friend, and here's
to his health!" spoke up the sighing lover
as he drank off a bottle filled with a mixt
ure which he supposed to be laudanum.
But when the emetic, which a shrewd
druggist had given instead of laudanum,
began to work his eirl just held his hat
to save the carpet and then dragged him
out on the door-steps by the hair of his
head. He has no longer any faith in the
vaunted tenderness of women's S3inpa
thetic nature.
SE.NSE AM) 0.VSEXSE.
Anole-wormh to feed the trout in
brooks of Wj-oming bring two dollars per
pound.
The mw who didn't think he knew
the onh- correct way to poke a fire or run
a newspaper is dead.
A Boston man is almost unable to walk
from being Hisoncd hy wearing stockings
d3'cd with aniline colors.
A LARoK butcher or ti-Oierman'H knife,
eleven inches long, was found in the maw
of a hundred-jwnind halibut opened at a
St. Johnsbury (Vt.) market recently.
Wk battle for the rights uf lire
While we have mortal breath;
DcUB (iuit)ord had a sorry strife
To w iu the rites of death.
-V. 1". (t'raifiU:
Mrs. James Fag an was recent- bitten
to death l3' dogs near her residence in the
vicinity of Natchez, Miss. Her face and
body were terribby lacerated by the fero
cious animals.
The New Hampshire census shows that,
from 1822 to 1873, 103 persona living in
that State have attained an age of more
than 100 j-ears. Those still living are to
assist at the Centennial.
Three negro children aged three, four
and six 3-ears were burned to death in
Coweta, Ga., lately. The parents had
gone off some three miles to pick cotton,
and had left the children alone. The
building is supposed to have been set on
fire by their carelessness.
Gov. Dinolev, of Maine, in resuming
the editorship of the Lewiston Journal,
nays he does so " with a stronger convic
tion than ever that no position m lite is
more honorable, or opens larger opportu
nities for influence and usefulness, than
that of the journalist."
A Louisville man wants somebody to
invent some kind of a button-hole that
will stand the strain of a candidate's
finger. He wants a metallic electrical
button hole, something that will make a
candidate feel as though he had been
struck b' nine kinds of-lightning.
The Chillicothe (Ohio) Advert iter says
the first piano ever brought west of the
Allegheuies was one owned by Miss Sarah
Sproat, the daughter of Col. Ebene.er
Sproat, an officer of the Revolution, who
emigrated to the Northwestern Territoy
in 17U8, and located at Marietta.
When the air is passed through a hot
furnace and heated to a high degree, and
then passed into a room, such air should
be called baked air, and it is about as bad
form of lung food as can be taken.
Nothing but headache, faintness, drowsi
ness and dullness can come from its use.
Herald of Health.
Oi r Dan remarked to his wife last
evening, as he left home for the office:
" I'll be back by ten o'clock if I don't
meet with any serious pull-back." " It
won't be well for yu to meet aii3- pull
backs, Daniel, serious or smiling, if I
know of it," said his better half, in tones
which indicated that she meant it.
Detroit Tribune.
France comes into the postal arrange
ment with the beginning of the new3ear,
but with a proviso. While alter that date
prepaid letters from this county to
France will require but five cents, prepaid
letters from that county to this will be
charged forty centimes, or eight cents.
An unpaid letter from the United States to
France will be charged there seventy
centimes, or fourteen cents.
Maine papers have the following: "A
farmer at Orrington has been for some
time feeding a squash, in the hope of
being able to bring it up to 200 pounds.
The feeding is done by cutting oil" the
vine about six feet from the squash and
placing the end in a pan into which fresh
milk is daily poured. By this means the
vine absorbs alout two quarts of milk per
day, and the squash gains about a pound
a da3r in weight."
Two young men walking down Broad
street the other day were discussing the
means of obtaining a smoke. " I've got
a counterfeit half-dollar," said one.
"Can't you pass it?" asked the other.
" I don't know; you might." " Me!" and
the young man's face became one contin
uation of an elongated exclamation point,
"me! Why, the fact of my having so
much money would create suspicion."
Auguxta (Ua.) Chronicle and Sentinel.
A circumstance is at hand to show
that the tenants of the forest nia3' feel a
profound contempt for a city Nimrod. A
3'oung Brookl3-nite borrowed a gun and
went down the island to shoot squirrels.
He blazed awaj- a whole morning without
hitting anything. Finally the squirrels
collected in great numbers, descended
from the trees, charged the sanguinary
intruder and chased him almost to Mon
tauk Point. He told the people there
that the womls were full of bandits.
Hrooklyn Argun.
The other da', while the Grand Juy
was in secret session, a member arose in
his seat and addressed the conclave:
"Gentlemen, I haven't had a single man
indicted -et. Now there is a merchant of
this town who is alwaj-s sending me in
sulting bills and I want him indicted for
arson or something of that sort." " As
soon as we get through with the prisoners
in jail we will attend to private griev
ances," responded the foreman, making a
memorandum of the merchant's name.
Sun Antonio Tex. Herald.
The Auburn (N. Y.) Adterttier tells
this delightful story: " Saturda- morn
ing a woman approached the stall of a
market-man in WiMiamsport and asked if
he had any good butter. The man in
formed her that he had a prime article, at
the same time unfolding a fine roll from a
clean white cloth, which he exhibited.
The womm seized it like a tiger and held
it up to her nose and then delileratel'
reaching back of her head drew forth a
hair-pin and jammed it deep into the but
ter. As she drew the pin through her
mouth she shook her head and remarked
that it wasn't good, and adjusting the pin
6he moved on."
A man named Niles Taylor, of Smcth
port, Pa., while driving with a friend,
was forced to jump from the carriage,
owing to the breaking of an axle, lie
was unhurt, but he had considerable diffi
culty in getting the carriage home and
on arriving there he wasvey tired. Hav
ing eaten his supper he went to bed, from
which he soon afterward arose in his
sleep and, going to a side door, he sprang
out, falling a distance of eighteen feet.
He was picked up conscious, but his in
juries were fatal. It is supposed that he
was dreaming of the accident which had
happened only a short time before, and
while dreaming sprang from his bed and
leaped through tlie door.
It's a safe principle to do business
strictly for cash. But doctors can't do it.
They must have patients to earn money,
and more to collect it. A New Orleans
physician, however, ha3 adopted a very
admirable way of collecting unpaid bills
in certain ca-ses. When he makes a
mortem he takes the heart, stomach, lungs,
and maybe a limb or two of the deceased
to his office, and doesn't bring 'em back
till his bill is paid. The mourning
friends don't like the idea of w eeping over
the grave of but small portion of the
dear departed. They want to have the re
mainder of his remains, so as to weep
over him as a whole, and consequently
they peny up.
Prof. Artus, who has devoted himself
to the discovery of the reason why woolen
clothing, when washed with soap and
water, will insist upon shrinking and be
coming thick, and acquiring that peculiar
odor and feeling which so annoys house
keepers, says these evil effects are due to
the decomposition of soap by the acids
present in Uie perspiration and other
waste of the skin which the clothing ab
sorb. The fat of the soap is then precip
itated upon the wool. These ('fleets may
be prevented by steeping the articles in a
warm solution of washing-soda for several
hours, then adding some wartu water and
a few drops of ammonia. The woolen
are then to be washed out und rinsed in
lukewarm water.
A woman's love is ever uppermost in
her mind. Sleeping, it fills h. r dreams;
on waking, it is her first thought; in tho .
moment of lite' imminent danger, still it
is the uppermost sentiment, especially if
the object of her love is her umhi clhi.
For instance, a lady, fat, fair and forty,
had ti narrow eseiiM: from being kilhd at
Carlisle. She fell over the platform whilo
the train was coming in, and was discov
ered lying on her back with the fore foot
under the engine, when she win extricated
from her perilous position uninjured, not
withstanding that she had been dragged
several yards by the engine, a bar at tlio
bottom of w hich she had firmly grasped
with both hands. Upon being lilted upon
the platform again her first words were:
" Where is my umbrella V'Harriburj
Patriot.
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FACTS AM) FUiUIlKN.
DuitiNO the last year 503 college degrees
were conferred on women.
The loss occasioned by Ihfl foot and
mouth disease iu England is est i mated at
$20,000,000 annually.
There are now in the colleges and
scientific schools uf the country 4!,KH pu
pils; in the preparatory schools 25,000.
Foil a school-room for 20 pupils ;$(! I'eet
square and 12 feet high is about the right
size. The entire air of stu b a room
should be warmed and changed five times
an hour to keep the carbonic acid down to
the proper amount ; nothing short of this
will keep the air sufficiently r.weet. At the
end of every hour the room should be
flushed from evey direction tostill further
purify it Herald cf Health.
The Ohio River is the greatest coal car
rier in the world, notwithstanding the fact
that it is frozen up during most of the
winter, and nearly dried up a large portion
of the summer. "A "run" of coal was
made during the month of July last, w hen
475,128 tons were shipped in forty-eight
hours. It would have loaded over ;$7,6u)
eight-wheeled cars, which would have had
to be made up into about 1,000 heavy
freight trains
For the three years, 170, 17l and 1872,
there were in New York :!"! suicides,
l:i2 of whom were Germans. Of that
number also 275 were males and eighty
four females, the age of the Idest being
eighty-six, and of the youngest ten. The
months in which self-destruction win most
prevalent were those of summer, August
furnishing more than twice as many sui
cides as December. Of the occupations
represented clerks figured ino-t largely.
The run of salmon in the Sacramento
River during the present season has been
something unprecedented, .Mr. J.iving-ton
Stone, in charge of the I nked Mates
salmon-hatching station on the. M'CIoud
River, stating, under date of Aug. 2,
that, in a space of about a hundred yard
by tliirty, 5,000 salmon per hour could bo
seen jumping out of the water. - .Mr. Stono
has actually counted 100 in a minute, and
has seen eighteen spring out of the water
at once.
The expenditures last year per capita
ot average attendar.ee in the public
schools of the country, aecordingto the re
port of the Commissioner of Education, is
as follows: Massachusetts, $20 ; Ohio, 14;
Nebraska, $18; Rhode Island, ?18; Con
necticut, fl!; Vermont, $2; New York,
$21; Iowa, sfH; Michigan. $15; New
Jersey, $18; Indiana, H; Illinois, $:i;
Maine, $10; Maryland, $M; Minnesota,
1'$; Mississippi, $!; Tennessee, $5;
Virginia, $8; Florida, $8; District of Co
lumbia, $2'i; Montana, 17; Colorado,
$22; Utah; $(!; Cherokee Nation, $24.
DuitiNo the last season of its work the
Bos'on Fruit and Flower Mission mad;
1(5,821 distributions of flowers and K!l
distributions of fruits. "The Pany
Man" sent in more than I'.O.OOO beautiful
pansies, and 50 towns made 74: contribu
tions of fruits. This mission lias also, with
the help of the Young Men's Christian
Union, given 272 rides to poor invalids.
Such good works prove that religion can
use the new science and art in th" service
of piety and charity, and make the king
doms of nature contribute cheering and
wholesome gifts to go with the Gospel to
the poor and the suffering.
The Animal Resources of the United
Stales.
TnE Smithsonian Institution is at pres
ent engaged in making a collection to il
lustrate the resources of the United State
as derived from the animal kingdom; and
to this end invites-the co-operation of all
who may have it in their power to render
any aid "in the undertaking. This will
form part of the Governmental display to
le made in accordance w ith the act of
Congress of March 175, and the Execu
tive order of March 5, 1875.
The general object of this exhibition is
to show, first, specimens of all the ani
mals of the United States which are hunt
ed or collected for an3' economical pur
pose whatever ; second, the products de
rived from the various species, both in
their crude and their applied or manu
facturing condition ; third, the apparatus
or devices by means of which, directly or
indirectly, these objects are ptusued, capt
ured ami utilized by sportsmen, hunters,
trappers and others.
For the purpose of rendering this exhi
bition complete and strictly national in it
character the Smithsonian" Institution in
vites donations of the above-mentioned
objects from manufacturer and dealers,
and communications concerning them,
with the guarantee that full credit shall be
given to all contributors on the label of
the articles and in the catalogues and pub
lications of the exhibition.
After the collection referred to ha
served its purpose at fie International
Exhibition it will be transported to Wash
ington and form a part of the permanent
display of the National MtMcurn, in c harge
of the Smithsonian Institution, where, a
in Philadelphia, proper wknowlcdg
ments will be made to all who have aided
in rendering it complete.
The more expensive articles will be re
ceived as a loan, should they be deemed
important to the exhibition, to be after
ward returned; but it is expected that, as
far as possible, all ;x-cimen.a will be pre
scntcd, so that they v ill form part of the
permanent display at Washington.
Specimens may be se.n by express or
mail ; or, if in large bulk, by railroad con
veyance. Their transjiortation will be
paid on receipt in Washington, to which
place they should be forwarded, addressed
to the Smithsonian Institution, and
marked "International Exhibition, 187";,"
and with the name and address of sender.
Josi-.rn Henry,
Secretary Smittifunisn Institution.
Varnish-brushes should never lw; al
lowed to touch water, as it not only in
jures the elasticity of the hair, but a res
inous substance is formed in the hilt f
the brush, which can never be thorough
ly removed, and which will work 'it lit
tle by little when the brush i used, de
stroying the glassy surface which other
wise might be obtained. Wmtem Man i
ficturer. Plows, harrows, wagons and othr
farming implements should be stored un
der shelter. More tools jire destroyed by
exposure to the weatlur than are worn
out. A valuable farm cart, by exposure to
the weather during one winter, will bo
damaged more than by three ycarb' use.