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VOLUME XI.
PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA. THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 187G.
NUMBER W.
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ENRY BCECK,
DEALER IN
jFuTrnituiie,
SAFES, CHAIRS,
Lounges, Tables, Bedsteads,
STB.. T., ETC,
Of All Descriptions.
METALLIC BURIAL CASES.
Wooden OofFinH
Of til fUrs, ready-made, and. old cheap far eath.
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ail to mil and rjainiin- my
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Varnishes. Patent Medicines.
Toilet Ai tides, etc., etc.
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SASH, DOORS, BLINDS. ETC.,
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lie keeps on liand n l:ir;e and well-selected
stock of
Fancy Groceries.
COFFEES, TEAS,
Sugar, Sirup,
ETC., ETC.,
Also a Large Stock of
DRY GOODS
Boots and Shoes,
c n 0 ( k 1 : 11 v , o r e i : x s w a u k ,
Etc., 1 Etc., Kic.
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In connection with the t'roctry ix a
BAKERY and CONFECTIONERY.
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IMhr.t Irlr Pail Tor Country rrixliirr.
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till
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119 on hand on if fa Inret stock of
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Gents' Furnishing Goods
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rp-ciaiiy 'n my K'tui T'c;artuicr.r. a .turU of
Vi..r i lnili'i e fur Ain t t. which wc '.n-
ti iho uliu aui cn'',.
I keep on uau-J a large and wcil-eelectcd
t:CK bf
Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, Etc.
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O. F. 30HNSON,
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Cos bad 1Ieiet, 'Proprietor.
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Saw and Grist
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CURKENT PARAGRAPHS.
Visrot'NT Amrkhi.ev, the eldest son of
Earl Uu.Hstll, diel in Inclon a few dnj's
ago.
Tuk llvptiWican National Convention
is to lie held in Cincinnati on the 14th of
next June.
CJov. Til.DKN litis recently rcfusol to
grant a pardon to Howard S. Stokcp, im
prisoned for the shooting of James Fisk.
I)k. S.vmi ei. (t. Howe, the founder of
the. Institule for the Blind in Boston, died
recently in that city, aged seventy-four
years.
The Bel grave cotton-mills at Oldham,
England, carrying 50,000 spindles, were
recently destroyed liy fire, involving a
loss of $ i."0,000.
Cedar Kafids has tier n selected as the
place for holding the next Iowa State
Fair, which is to liegin on the second
Jlonda' in September.
Joseph Lapaok has been convicted of
the murder, at Pembroke, N. II., of Josic
Langmaid, and sentenced tole hanged on
the 19lh of January, 1877.
Announcement is made of the death,
at Santa Fe, New Mexico, of Maj.-tJcn.
Gordon (Jranger. He died of apoplexy,
and was alioul fifty years of age.
The Hon. John Wilson, formerly Com
missioner of the General Land-Ottiee, and
Third Auditor of the Treasury, died in
Washington a few days ago, aged sixty
five years.
Tire Democratic nominations in Texas
arc: For Governor, Kicliard Coke; Lieutenant-Governor,
B. Hubbard; Presiden
tial Electors, I). G. Giddings and B. II.
Epporson; Attorney-General, H. II.
Boone; State Treasurer, J. Dow; Chief
Justice, O. M. Roberts.
Recently some burglars broke into a
store in Osliorne, Mo., stole a bottle of
chloroform, and then proceeded to drug
all the inhabitants of the town. They
went through lnth hotels, all the stores
and many of the dwelling-houses, secur
ing several thousand dollars, after which
they made their escape.
A railway train in Russia filled with
military recruits ran off the track near
Odessa, a few days ago, and plunged
down a sleep embankment. The wrecked
cars caught fire and many passengers were
horned to death before they could he ex
tricaled. The numlier killed was sixty
eight and fifty-four were injured, some of
them fatally.
A kecent special from Laramie City,
Wyoming, announces the discovery, almut
twenty-six miles west of that place, ol
what isclaiuied to be the richest gold mine
ever discovered on this continent. It is
said that only the deep snows in the mount
ains in that neighborhiHHl prevented all
the people in tlie surrounding country
rushing in there in search of gold.
An interesting experiment was recently
made in Milwaukee, by which it was
demonstrated that, by the use of new in
struments, eight messages can be simul
taneously transmitted over a single tele
graph wire. The transmitting instru
ments produce a musical sound instead of
a click, and the number of dispatches
which may lie sent over the same wire at
the same time is believed to lie limited
only by the possibilities of sound. The
discoverer of the new system of teleg
raphy is Mr. Elisha Gray, of Chicago.
In his annual report the Librarian of
Congress, Mr. A. R. Spafford, states that
there arc now in the Congressional
Library 21)3,507 volumes, against 274,150
on the 1st of December, 1874. Of these
the law department contains 34.513 vol
umes, the remainder lieing in the miscel
laneous department. To these arc to be
added nearly (50,000 pamphlets lxiundand
unbound. Mr. Spafford again calls atten
tion to the urgent necessity for a new sep
arate building for the National Library,
to prevent overcrowding.
A little boy w ho proved to be James
Blanchard, of Milford, N. II., created
considerable excitement at St. Albans, Vt.,
a few days ago by claiming to be the lost
Charley Ross. Much telegraphing and
correspondence lietween citizens of that
place and interested parties in Philadel
phia ensued, the little impostor main
taining for several days his assertions that
he was tlye veritable Ross boy, and show
ing in many of his statements a remarka
ble familiarity with the history of the
missing lioy and his Philadelphia home.
The pretender was finally taken to his
home in Milford, where he was fully
identified by his mother.
The bill introduced in the House on
the 10th by Mr. Wood, of New York, to
repeal in part the Resumption act of
January, 1875, and provide for a return to
specie payments without contraction,
proposes to utilize the $700,000,000 4 per
cent, lionds not yet negotiated, and re
maining in the Treasury, as a basis for the
issuing of small Treasury notes in lieu of
the present legal-tenders and National
Bank currency. It also provides for the
establishing of a sinking fund, to be made
up of one-half of the surplus coin
revenues in each fiscal year after pro
viding for coin expenditures, and also of
1 per cent, of interest on the redeemed
4 percent, bonds called in in lieu of
small Treasury notes issued, as a redemp
tion lund for the resumption of specie
payments. It also provides for the sus
pension of the present sinking fund until
resumption shall have been accompli.-hed,
and contains various new provisions for
the regulation of the finances of the Gov
ernment By cooling glass more rapidly than
could occur in ordinary atmospheric tem
peratures, that is, by a process the re
verse of annealing, Iince Rujiert's drops
are made. The ordinary way to make
these scientific curiosities is to drop a
small quantity, usually less than half an
ounce, of perfectly fluid glass into water.
In falling the glass will form the shape
of a tear, with an elongated end extend
ing into a thread. Rupert drops are clear,
bright and hard, and may be struck with
much violence upon the larger end with
out fracture, but if the thin, though
tough and very elastic, thread of the other
extremity be broken off, the whole drop
will explode into numberless fragments,
much finer than the sand of which the
glass was originally composed. Popular
Science Monthly.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
CONDENSEU ItLEGRAPKIC NEWS.
AKEPiiRTthat Austria was preparing
for war was authoritatively denied on the
8th.
While the Prince of Wales and his
party were hunting wild boars near Luck
now, India, on the 8th, Lord Carrington
had his collar-lmne broken.
A Maiuiio telegram of the 8th states
that there had lieen a heavy fall of snow
in the province of Guipuz.cea, which had
greatly impi-ded military operations. The
authorities hail issued a notice to mariners,
wming them not to approach the coast
east of Bilbao, on account of the danger
from Carlist batteries.
Dk. Stp.ousukro, the bankrupt railway
contractor, has been released from impris
onment on parole.
It was stated in New York on the Oth
that all the churches invited by Mrs.
Moulton to take part in the mutual coun
cil had accepted the invitation. The list
embraces some of the most celebrated
clergymen in the denomination.
J. Y. Scammon, former President of the
Mechanics' National Bank, a suspended
Chicago monetary institution, and J. S.
Reed, his cashier and son-in-law, have been
indicted by a Chicago Grand Jury on the
charge of appropriat ing a large amount of
the funds of the bank for the private liene
fit of Mr. S. In a card dated Washington,
Jan. 8, Mr. Scammon emphatically de
nies the alleged embezzlement and any in
tentional wrong in his actions as Presi
dent of the bank.
A Brussels telegram of the 10th re
ports continued distu rlianccs among the
miners at Charleroi. On the night of the
9th an outbreak had occurred in which
several had lieen killed and more
wounded. Troops had been sent to tne
scene of trouble.
The inauguration of Gov. naj-cs, of
Ohio, took place at Columbus on the
10th, in presence of a vast concourse of
people from all parts of the State.
A Pakis dispatch of the 11th Bays M.
Lon Say, Minister of Finance, had re
tired from the French Cabinet.
A kecent Berlin telegram slates that
the German Government had decided to
set Cardinal Ledochowsky at liberty un
conditionally at the end of his term of
imprisonment, but he will be closely
watched and again arrested should he at
tempt to exercise his episcopal functions
or otherwise infringe upon the Ecclesias
tical laws.
The Iowa Legislature eflected an organ
ization on the 11th, both houses electing
Republican officers.
A Bkui.in telegram of the 12th states
that the Prince Imperial had finally de
cided not to visit the Philadelphia Expo
sition, the Emperor's health rendering the
absence of the heir to the Empire unad
visable. The Sublime Porte of Turkey received
a message on the from the Turkish
commander that tranquillity had lieen re
stored everywhere in Herzegovina except
in the district lietween Trebmje, Bilek
and Gatsclike, on the Montenegrin ljordcr.
In the Louisiana Legislature on the
12lh twelve Senators took part in the elec
tion 01 J. B. Eustis as United States Sen
ator, who received seventy-five votes, one
more than was necessary to elect. Sixty
three Representatives and twelve Senators
voted for him. The Senate, by a vote of
thirteen to twelve, had previously voted
against an election and adopted a resolu
tion that there was no vacancy.
The Wisconsin Legislature organized
on the 12th by the election of Republican
officers in both houses. S. S. Firield was
chosen Speaker of the House by a vote of
fifty-three to fortj'-five. the Independent
members casting their votes in his favor.
The Marquis of Ripon, the English no
bleman recently converted to Catholicism,
has presented the Pope with $50,000 in
gold.
The recent New Hampshire Democrat
ic State Convention nominated Daniel
Marcy for Governor and Thomas Dins
more for Railroad Commissioner, and
adopted resolutions declaring that it is the
exclusive right and duty of the State to
provide for the education of its children ;
that it is the inalienable right of every
citizen to worship God according to the
dictates of his own conscience, and no po
litical disabilities should be incurred by
reason of religious belief; deprecating all
attempts to raise sectarian issues in poli
tics; declaring against a third Presiden
tial term as dangerous to the liberties of
the citizen and the prosperity of the na
tion. A meetino of woikingmen was held in
New York city on the evening of the 10th,
at which Peter Cooper presided. An ad
dress to the workingmen of the United
States was adopted, which says: When
the Government began to contract its
credit systematically, and in large meas
ure, from year to year, to pay a debt that
was not due, all other credits, private and
corporate, began to contract flso, and
brought on a panic in the financial affairs
of the country, of which we now feel the
most deplorable effects." As a remedy
for these evils the address suggests a cur
rency which will best facilitate the ex
change of the productions of labor; that
this currency lie supported by the credit
of the whole country; that the present
national debt lie put, as far as possible, in
the hands of the American people, and the
enterprise and lalor of the nation lie set
to work again, and that the national debt
lie converted into, bonds payable in cur
rency and bearing a lower rate of interest.
A proclamation was issued on the 13th
by President MacMahon, in which he ad
vises the French people to vote in the
coming Senatorial election for those can
didates who would rally around the Gov
ernment as at present constituted. The
resignation ofM. Leon Say had been with
drawn. A Vienna dispatch of the 13th says
Russia was making incessant preparations
for war. A third track had been added to
the railroad line front Moscow to Polish
Lithuania.
Gov. Kirkwood. of Iowa, was inau
gurated on the 13th.
The State debt of Pennsylvania, after
deducting the assets of the sinking fund,
amounts to $13,7(KJ.564.
A recent New York dispatch states
that Egypt's contributions - Urthe Centen-
nial Exposition had arrived. Neatly all
of them are the property of the Khedive.
Many of the curious and costly articles,
such as weapons and ornaments from the
barbarous tribes inhabiting the remote re
mote regions of Central Africa, jewels, in
laid work in ivory, precious metals and
rich embroideries in gold and silver
thread, produced by Arabian artisans of
Cairo, arc taken from the National
Museum, while the liest specimens of ag
ricultural products are from the estates of
the Khedive.
FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.
Monday, Jan. 10. Petitions were pre
sented In the Senate, and rcfurred of .i;i
women of Utah, avkin for the repeal of the Anli
Polyjrnmy law of 1ST. J and the Poland Mil, and
that Utah he admitted a State into the L'ulon;
of citizen t Ohio, akiiijfora rri'al ,jf Hie Re
sumption act paivi at the l:it ciiin. mid also
for the eiinrttuenr ol a law to provide for tho n:
tireinent of NmioiiHl H:mk uotex and ruliKi idite
therefor leal-tender United Mate note, etr.
Rei-oiiitionn were unanimously adopted de lnrini;
th.it the dea'h i f the Vice l:reidt:nt does not
have the effect to vacate the office of Prod den I
pro ttmiuirr of the Senate, anl that that office i"
held at the pleasure ol the Senate Several bill
and memorials were presented and referred A
large number of bill were introduced in tho
Motive, anions w hich wan otic by Mr. Wood, of
New York, to repeal, in part, the act of J.in. l'.i,
1ST5, providing for the reuni!tion of specie pay
ments, arid to facilitate the resumption of specie
payments without contraction of the currency.
On motion of Mr. Itaudall the rules were sus
pended in order to consider the Amnesty bill,
and 'he previous question was demanded and
seconded l.'H tot!- arter which a rnnnini debate
on the- question of dh cussing the bill was in
dulged 111, the Republican members claiming
that the previous question barrua any argu
ment unless by nnrpimoiiH conrent, which
would not he granted by that side of
the Honse unless the right of amend nn nt vpi
conceded by the Democratic members. The bill
was rejected yeas 17, nays !7 -not the requisite
two-ihirds in the majority. Mr. liUine then
moved to reconsider this vote, and proceeded to
speak at considerable length in behalf of his
amendment to exclude Jefferson Davis from the
provisions of the hill, and presrriliiu!! an oath to
he takeu by p.-irti.-s availinir themselves of the
privileges of the biil. lie was followed by
Messrs. Cox and Kelley in reply, who spoke in
favor of universal amnesty, nfter which Mr. Hill,
of tJeorgia, obtained the floor and the debute
went over.
Tuesday, Jan. 11. Bills were intro
duced in the Senate for the formation of a Sta e
Constitution in Tsew Mexico and the admission
of such State into the T'nion: to establish a
branch mint at St. IOtiis. Formal announcement
was made of the death of ex-PresidcUt and Seun
tor Andrew Johnson, and several enlogies wire
delivered, after w hich the nsnal resolutions ol
respect were adopted A bill was introduced in
the House hy Mr. Mcrrisou, preparatory to the
redemption " of United -lates 1 o'cs and the re
sumption of specie payments. The Pension Ap
propriation bill (JtWH 0 0 was reMrted anil
made the special rd'-r for the 1 lih. Mr. Hill, ol
tieorgia, made a lengthy speech in reply to ihe
remnrks of Mr. Blaine 011 the Amnestr lull, after
which Ihe Senate's anion 111 connection with the
ileal li of ex-President Johnson was aiinoiinred.
and severnl eulogies upon Ihe life and services ol
Ihe deceased were delivered.
Wednesday, Jan. 12. A bill was in
troduced in the Senate to place all colored troops
who enlisted in the army ou an equal footing
with other soldiers a to bounties and pensions.
A resolution was introduced tor the appointment
ot a committee to examine Ihe ho ks of the
Treasury Department. The resolution declaring
that the" ollice of President pro litnpoit of the
Senate is held at the pleasure of the Senatewas,
after discussion, adopted-.'! to 15 Afier the
introduction of several bills and resolution in
the House among them one requiring National
Banks to prepare for specie payments, and one
ton fund Ihe cotton tax consideration of the
Amnesty hill na resumed, and Mr. ti irtield
spoke in support of Mr. Blaine's substitute and
in reply to Mr. Hill's speech of the previous day.
Thursday, Jan. 13. In the Senate, pe
titions were presented signed by ove.nOHcitir.oiiS
of Minnesota. Wisconsin, Iowa and Missouri, ask
ing for an appropriation of '00.0011 for the im
provement of the upper Missouri liiver. The
Judiciary Committee was instructed to inquire
and report whether the irt of March 1, IT'.W. mak
ing provision for succession to the Presidency in
the event of vacancy, is not defective, and, if so,
in w hat particular. Ir. Davis spoke 011 hi resolu
tion calling for un investigation of the books of
the Treasury Department, and was answered hy
Mr. Itoutwell, who staled that the discrep incie's
complaiued of hy Mr. Davis were apparent, and
not real. Adjourned to the 17th Several resolu
tions ot inquiry and investigation were adopted
hy the House. Mr. Blaine made his closing
speech on his proposed amendment to the Am
nesty bill, alter which Mr. Banks offered an
amendment providing that nny person laboiin
under political disabilities might have them re
moved on subscribing to an oath ot loyalty to the
IJovcrumcnt. which amendment was ru'ed out ol
order, Mr. Bank advocating it, followed by
Messrs. Tarbox and Morey tu lavor of universal
amnesty. Mr. Randall tuen doted the debate on
the question, when the original bill, wilh Mr.
li.mks' amendment Mr. Blaine's not having
been admitted -was referred to the Judiciary
Committee.
THE MARKETS.
Januabv IS, 1876.
NEW YORK.
Liti Stjc. Beef Cattle 19.75&13.5. lljgs
Live, $7.7338.. Sheep Live, $5 007.00,
Brbaituffs. flour Good t- choice, f
5.90; wh'te wheat eitra $5..",a7.73 Wheat
No. 2 Chicago, $l.iftl.2j; Nc. 2 Milwaukee
spring, $1.14 41.26. Rye Western atid State,
88Utic. Barley fl.OTK&l. 10. Corn Mired West
ern, 71373c. Oata Mixed Western. 41!;.
Pbovisions. Pork Mess, $i0.75&21.00. Lard
Prime Steam, liai'2Tc. Cheese 6j,12c.
Wool. Domestic Fleece. 4--J3;b"c.
CHICAGO.
Lira Stock. Beeves Choio. $5.1.06.25;
good, 14.755.35: medium, $.&4.50; bntcn
rs' stock, $3.Wat.0O; stock cattle, IS.OOit
8.75. Hogs Live, f-i.9 JQ7.15. sheep Good to
choice, $l..VX&5.-25.
Provisions. Butter Choice, avTJ-'tJi. Eggs
Fresh, ZXfriic. Pork Mess, $19.20.9.25.
Lard $12.2512.30.
BRBaDSTcrrrs. Floor White Winter Extra
$4.757.50; spnng extra, $4.005.25. Wheat
Spring, Nc. 2, $l.C0ai.i. Corn No. 2,
43ie&t3?ac. Oats No. 2,3046fci',4c Jtye No. 2,
fCHGfcruC. Barley No. 2, HHS7c.
Lumbkr. First and Second Clear, $10.00r
42.00; Common Boards, $ 11.0fKrll2.ro; Fencing,
$12.00(13.00; "A" Shingles, $2.75&3.00; Lath,
fl.?r.&2.00.
EAST LIBERTY.
Live Stock Bceve Best, t 5 75.6.r5; me
d om. 15.00 5.25. Hoes Yorke s, 17 0H&7.3I;
Philadelphia, $7 5)117 7'L Sheep Pest, $5 37J4
Q5.75; medium, I4.75&.V00.
What Is Character I
What is character? It is more than
reputation, for this ('. reputation) de
pends upon others. It is accidental; it
lias the element of conjecture in il ; its
source is hearsay, report, liut character,
whether god or bad, lies in the man. lis
essence is in the spirit, even as sin is in
the motive, and not in the outward ac
tion. Character is the mark of what you
are; it has a foundation within you. It
is not dependent upon others, nor upon
report, but upon you. It cannot be in
jured by others. Your own acts have in
fluence, either for good or evil, upon it.
You can be the architect of your charac
ter, though another may be of your repu
tation. You can build your reputation
up toward perfection, and vou can pull it
down after it is built up. Vou, v' alone
have such power as this. This must Iks
so. since it is undeniably true that you
alM have embodied the things wiihiu
your inner life, the sum total of which
makeup your character. This sum total
of emliodied or crystallized things, what
ever they may be, whether good or bad,
results in the formation of character,
which, in its outward act, is a revelation
of the character wliich you have made;
and these acts are almost infallible criteria
of your character, for they will partake of
the mental and moral lite out of which
they come. No man can for a lifetime
hide himself behind thin disguises and
shallow verbiage. What is it one will
show itself, sooner or later. Acts are the
fatal evidences against hypocrisy and self
del asion . Phrenological J ovrnal.
The Rev. Drs. Nicolls and Brookes,
two of the most prominent Presbyterians
in St. Louis, have, with the design ot
reaching the masses on Sabbath evenings
and preaching to them the Gospel, rented
De Bar's Opera-llouse in that city for the
ensuing beaaun.
English Education of To-Pay.
What is the avowed object and purpose
of the higher English school education?
Is it Ihe even and progressive develop
ment of young minds? the strengthening
in equal proportion of the faculties ot
imagination, memory, reason, olserva
tion? the opening doors of knowledge in
the plastic time of youlh, which if not
opened then will le fast closeil in later
years by the pressure of active work, or
habitual exclusiveness, or energies para
lyzed through disuse? Nothing of the
kind. It is constructed entirely with the
aim of winning certain prizes; for schol
nrahipN with which a costly university
briln s men to come to it for education;
for class-lists leading up lo college fellow
ships; for the lucrative posts of military
and civil service. In all these, but most
of all where the universities can deter
mine the ordeal, tine principle of success
has lieen established and that principle is
one-sided ness. The candidate for India,
for Woolwich, for Cooper's Hill, must nt
an early age select certain subjects and
throw overlioard all the rest. The child
ish aspirant to Ihe entrance scholarships
ol a public school is placed in the hands
of a crammer at eight years old, that at
thirteen he may turn out Latin verses as a
Buddhist prayer-milt turns out prayers,
and many manifest, as a distinguished
head-master has lately said, to the eye of
a teacher searching for intelligence,
ihoughlfulness, promise, intenseness, "a
stupidity which is absolutely appalling."
His scholarship won he is pledged to pur
sue a course whose licnefits are tangible
and its evil consequences remote. The
universities have stamped upon all
the schools tine dTp certainty, that
for a boy to lie " all around," as
it is called, is the irremissible sin ; that
a schoolmaster who teaches with ref
erence to intellectual growth and width
of culture sacrifices thereby all hope of
the distinctions which make a school
famous and increase its numbers. If a
classical scholarship is desired, science
and mathematics are abandoned; nay,
the palul ol literary excellence is con
ceded even to men ignorant of the noblest
literature in the world, their own birth
right and inheritance, and knowing less
of the history and structure of the En
glish language than a fourth-form boy
knows of Greek. If mathematical suc
cess is aimed at, literature and science
are ignored; if the fw science scholar
ships existing tempt candidates from any
of ' the thirteen schools w hich possess a
laboratory," mathematics in part and lit
erature altogether must lie given up. It
would be waste of words to point out the
fatal tendency of this separative process;
to show how mere linguistic training
needs the rationalizing aid of scientific
study, or how exclusive science hardens
and "materializes without the refining so
ciety of literature; yet such divorce is
inevitably due not to tho convictions ot
schoolmasters, not to the influence of
parents, not to the prepossessions of the
public, but to the irresistible force of the
university system, which makes narrow
ness of intelligence and imperfect knowl
edge the only avenues to distinction or
to profit. liit. W. Tvckieell, in Popular
Science M untidy.
Widows' Weeds.
Dtii'Tons do not differ more widely in
their methods of sending people to the
shades than the liercaved in their styles of
doing honor to the departed. It has been
thus from the earliest historical period.
Alexander the Great, we are told, was en
veloped, as soon as the breath was out of
his lKxly, in new honey.
And tucea Artemisia, by way of a Mu,
the ashes gulped down of her husband,
Mausolus.
It is scarcely necessary, however, to re-fc-r
to the past in order to show that there
is no universal standard of taste in funeral
matters. Almost every barbarous tribe
has its own patent recipe for disposing of
the relics of mortality. The Hottentots
basket them. The Ivatllrs use them as
ground bait for lions. The Orinocos place
them where the llesh is nibbled front the
bones by hungry fishes. Some South
American tribes grind the skeletons of
their dead to a powder with which they
afterward pepper their food. The New
Zealanders stretch dead bodies on lofty
platfoims and leave them to the crows and
buzzards. The Hindoos burn their dead
and do net even care to preserve the ashes.
Civilized individuals, tin), have their lit
tle eccentricities in relation to Xhepont
tturtem disposition of the human clay.
One would keep the worms from their
food with metal sheathing. Another con
siders a rosewood coflin, with silver
mountings, indispensable. A third would
have his dead embalmed. A fourth pre
fers a spacious vault to the sexton's dark
pit. A fifth thinks that the fittest resting
place for the liody, when its toils are over,
is a narrow bed under the sward, and a
sixth has faith in cremation.
. The fashions of mourning for the dead
hive been and are as various as the meth
ods of putting them away from among
the living. The old Romans bottled their
tears and put them into the tombs of the
deceased. The Greeks mourned the de
parted in white. The Egyptians in yel
low. In ancient Jewry the relatives of
the dead tore their gaberdines and poured
ashes on their heads, and we believe that
strict Hebrews do the same now. Ver
milion is the mourning tint of the Chi
nese. The Turkish women grieve for
their lords in blue. It is only in the
most enlightened lands that black is
worn in memory of those who are sup
posed to have passed to a brighter world.
We modern Christians are artists iu our
grief. We have made affliction, for one
sex, at least, a sort of telegraphic system,
with appropriate symliols for all the stages
of anguish. Our ladies work with admira
ble precision the shades and gradations of
their grief for the departed. They may lie
said to have reduced mourning to an exact
science to have brought to absolute per
fection the heraldry of grief. The sorrow
establishments, where tender remembrance
is sold by the yard, do an immense busi
ness. The deatn fashionschange quarterly,
like the ordinary mode, and Ihe disconso
late sjiend hours in gazing through their
tears at the latest " sweet things," or the
diminutntbt department of the "trappings
and the suits of woe." Far be it from us
to say that mourning docs not serve to
keep the memory of the loved and lost
green in the souls of survivors ; but the
question occurs, Why should their sor
row, if-deep and genuine, need the sup
port of this eluliorate system of emblems?
Why is it not permitted to go out by little
and little, in a quiet way, without the
hoisting of a new Hag every month or so,
to indicate the state of the lachrymal ther
mometer? Can it be that the sumptuous
changes which mark the gradual transi
tion from achrvsaloid state of black and
all black to full-blown butterfly hoid are
intended as hints that widowhood on the
wing is social and desires companionship?
It baa been often noticed that good-looking
widows are almost invariably dressed
with great care. Their attire is fitted to
their shapes with a nicety that the unaf
tlicted cannot rival, and their drapery has
a flowing grace about it that is rarely
seen in the robes of gay and volatile maid
ens whose happiness has known no cloud.
It is sufficient to mention these phe
nomena without attempting to explain
them. They are quite beyond philosophy.
We were unconsciously led into this
train of reflection a day or two since by
contemplating the exterior of a store in
which mourning habiliments (black and
the loveliest shade of lavender) exhibit
the gradations of feminine grief. The
special shops for this sort of thing in
Paris are called maUon de deu.il. J'alais
de joie would be a better title ; for there,
as here, the banners of hope and the col
ors of consolation neutralise the popular
evidence of the grief of the In-reaved. An
exclusive mourning establishment should
have statues of weeping women resting
their elliows on monumental urns on the
threshold, and the ushers should be
clothed in the dreariest habiliment. If it
had an assortment of choice epitaphs it
would lie appropriate, and Ihe proprietors
should take esjiecial care that the helps
have a gloomy cast of countenance, with
the faculty of upraising the eyes, after the
approved expression of " pale melan
choly."' But this elaborate and artificial
display of sorrow would be heaping
coals of tire m tho head of the devotees of
etiquette, licnt on showing to the world,
IkIow the depths of grief, a still lower
deep. It needs only a step more to the
ridiculous to induce a return to sense and
taste. No colors are so delicious as
violet and lilac; none so enticing address
themselves tit good and soIht taste as gray
or purple; and all these are e cry where to
lie found. Blended, harmonized, indi
vidualized, they can lw: adapted to every
style of subject and. shade of sentiment,
and convert "weeds" into charming
iMiuqucts of fresh flowers. Home Jouriuil.
FACTS AND FIGURES.
There are now in North Carolina tMO
lodges of the order of Good Templars,
with a membership of 10,000.
We completed in 175 1,170 miles of
railroad, against 1,7:11 miles in 1H7I,
y,4. in 187:1, and (,.V! in 17:3.
New Jkhskv turned out l,."io0,000
pounds of grapes last fall; UOO.OOO were
kept for making wine and the rest ex
port ef.
Seven street-car companies of Phila
delphia are making preparations to con
vey 11)0,000 persons jht day to the Centen
nial grounds.
I.v Idaho Territory, lately, a pretty Mor
mon girl, only thirteen years of age, com
mitted stucit e liecause her sister's hus
band refused to marry her also.
The Island of Crete, according to an
official almanac published at Canea, con
tains 227,):M inhabitants, of whom lol,
400 are Greeks, 93,120 Turks and Arabs,
and HIT Jews.
Adjt.-Gen. Ccnninoham, of Massachu
setts, estimates the cost of the State
militia during the centennial year at
f2o0,280, ami Surgeon-Gin. Dale puts
his department's expenses at $5,700.
The medical statistics of the Prussian
army show that nearly 40,000 men were
placed upon the sick list during the cam
paign in France, suflering from injuries
caused by the long lioots worn by the in
fantry. William H. Nicholas, of Philadel
phia, has constructed a model of the Na
tional Washington Monument, using 0,:iH5
pieces of native wood of sixty-seven va
rieties in its construction. He was seven
years in making it.
The term " car-load" is very generally
used, but few people know how much it
is. As a general rule 20,000 pounds, or
70 barrels of salt, 70 of lime, !K) of flour,
00 of whisky, 200 sacks of flour, 5 cords
of soft wood, 18 to 20 head of cattle, 50
to sixty head of hogs, HO to 100 head 01
sheep, 9.000 feet of solid loards, 17.OO0
feet of Riding, 13,000 feet of flooring, 40,
000 shingles, one half less of hard lum
Iht, one-fourth less green lumber, one
tenth of joists, scantling and all other
large timlier, y iO bushels of wheat, :0
of ear corn and 300 of shelled com, 00
of oats, 400 of barley, WW of flax seed,
300 of apples, 310 of Irish potatoes, or
1,000 bushels of bran, make a car-load.
Joitui State lieu inter.
Emeiison, the English chemist, shows
thHt it is not for the purjiose of cleaning
and pluming their wings and bodies that
flies stroke them with their feet, but that
they thereby collect a quantity of micro
scopic insects, upon which they feed by
means of their prolmscis. These insects
are scraped from the wings, and can lie
separately examined. He farther proves
that myriads of healthy flies, covered with
lice, float through impure and fo tid air;
while in localities where the air is fresh
and pure only a few emaciated ones are
seen, and those quite free from insects.
Accordingly, wherever there is corruption
and the living germ of disease, there
flourish their enemies and destroyers, and
these are our despised house-flies.
The total numlcr of persons of 100
years of age and upward living in New
York SUitc, as shown by the census taken
in June last, is 100, of whom forty-one
are males and sixty-eight females. The
oldest person on the list is Sarah Hicks,
of Brooklyn, who is 114. Twenty-nine of
the centenarians live in New ork city
and seven in Briioklyn. Forty of the 109
were born in Ireland, six in Canada,
two in the West Indies, one each
in Scotland, Spain and at sea, while
thirty-five are natives of the United States,
and the birth-place of twenty remains un
recorded. There arc twelve colored per
sons and two Indians in the list. If the
managers of the Centennial Exposition
should erect a building to comfortably ac
commodate all the persons living in the
United States on the 4lh of July, 170,
who were born in the Colonies prior to
the Declaration of Independence, a good
sized structure would lie required. New
York has thirty-five it could semi, and the
whole country lias, presumably, atxmt ten
times as many, or !J50 enough to consti
tute a goodly centennial battalion of cen
tenarians. Detroit Free Pre.
An Amnslng Incident.
Two Ladies found themselves in a
laughable predicament on Thursday after
noon.. At the time they did not enjoy the
fun, for there was danger, too; but after it
was all over they joined in the laugh as
heartily as anybody. They were in a
buggy going leisurely up the hill from
Water to Hill street. Their horse seemed
a quiet old animal and both capable and
willing to take care of his charge, but
cautious masculinity, to make assurance
doubly sure, had provided a set of patent
safety harness that leis the horse go free
whenever the. driver pulls a certain strap
in easy reach. This in case the horse lie
gins to kick or liecoincs otherwiseuntnan
ageable. Well, the ladies were nearly at
the top of the hill when one of them acci
dentally caught her foot in the safety strap.
Immediately the horse walked out of har
ness, and the buggy began a movement in
the opposite direction. Slowly at first it
went, but the grade sieedcd the motion,
and soon a lively ride was lieing had by
those two ladies without other motive than
the attraction of gravitation. The wld
horse stopped and for a moment seemed
to ponder. Then, attracted by Ihe noise
of the receding vehicle, he slowly turned
around and, with surprise depicted in his
ancient eyes, watched his late attachment
as it went with ever-increasiDg speed to
ward the tiottomof the hill. Meantime the
ladies what did they do? At first they
caught their breath. Then the increasing
rapidity of their ride prompt! them to
do something. So they screamed. The
situation was becoming a little dangerou.',
for so soon as the buggy ran to one side a
tilt over was more than probable, and so
the ladies screamed. Well, Paddy saved
the Queen from a mud-hole and a ne
gro boy rescued the ladies. With great
presence of mind he rushed forward,
caught the shafts and slowly, by degrees,
brought the vehicle to a stop, the ladies to
safety and the ground. Then the horse,
seeming to feel that he was wanted, slow
ly walked down the hill, turned around
and was hitched to. And they all went
on their way rejoicing. Lexington. (Ky.)
Gazette.
Levtty is the soul of wit
SENSE AMI MO.N SENSE.
Licr impressionable young men Ik; on
their guard. It's leap year.
LoMmin now cats Texas steers and Ver
mont potatoes, and finds American hair
in its hash.
A New Yoiik firm is manufarturing
baUle-ticM relics to ll to Centennial
greenhorns.
A man at Binghamton, N..Y., cured
himself of consumption by rhewing oak
bark.
A Boston leather-dealer ha a human
hide, tanned like morocco, and means to
have a pair ot IhxIs made of it.
An old maid in Reading married a
tramp because, as she said, he smell'!
iust like an Italian count horn she had
once met and loved.
So, madamk, you yearn to lie an in.
ventor, do you ? Go and invent a poeket,
so that you needn't carry vur " in k t"
lxxik in your hand. X. i". (irapfiie.
A B vi.TiMoim lady wouldn't buy, after
tumbling goods over for an hoiir, and
when the KhopkeciHT scowled nt her she
bad him horsewhipped and then arrested.
No man ever got married without somc
liody calling him a Uw.liichmoiul En
auirer. Yes, and nine cases out of ten it
is his wife that does it. llrooklyn Arfit.
A iivoR petrifaction, formed almost en
tirely of serpents in vaiious positions,
but making a solid mass, has leen found
near the line of the Baltimore iV Ohio
Railroad.
A BiirNswn-K man has ln-gun his win
ter's economy by cutting of his loot legs
and having them footed and giving the
other part ot the IhkiIs to his wife to serve
her for shoe?.
Dk. Hall says that "night air is very
bad," and if people will keep on breath
ing after dark they do it at their own risk,
and have nolxidy but themselves to blame
for the consequences.
Yoir can judge something of how cur
nest Vermonters are to surenn education
by the fact that an old farmer walked
seven miles to lxirrow a sheet of letter
paper and a pen-holder.
Seventeen ikim.ahs' wor'h of dishes
disapiieared from the eyes of a Richmond
family in three weeks, and the lnreu girl
could remember breaking nothing but the
ax-handle and the buck g.ile.
The absurd story about the plxrnix grew
out of the fact that phienixes always
roosted in ash trees, and hence when I hey
took wing they were paid to "rise from
their ashes." Lhicayo limit.
A few days ago a man named Frifchie,
residing nt Nazareth, Pa., while cutting
corns from his feet fell dead on the floor.
A physician was sent for, who stated that,
the cause of his death was heart disease.
She wanted her better-half to step into
the store and ' take just one little peep nt
that lovely sealskin sacquc." He hesi
tated and was lost. When they came out
she was radiant in the new garment, and
his face was as long as your arm.
A New O it leans paper thusdlscourscx:
" If men are the salt of the earth, women
arc sugar. Salt is a necessity, sugar Is a
luxury. Vicious men arc the sullx ter;
hard, stern men the rock salt; nice family
men the table salt; pretty girls the fine
pulverized white sugar; old maids are
brown sugar; gixxl-iiatuied matrons the
loaf sugar, and young men arc loafers."
The first shipment of oil in bulk was
made from Venango County, Pa., in 1815
by the late Gen. Hays, of I ranklin, who
gathered three barrels from what was
subst-qucntly termed the Buchanan farm,
on which most of Roustvillo is now situ
ated. The oil was skimmed off the springs
along the creek with 110 small lalxir, care
fully secured in strong barrels and sent by
wagon to Baltimore. There it was placed
in charge of a leading merchant, who fre
quently complained of its atrocious smell,
and after storing it for a year or two
emptied the whole quantity into , the
Chesaiwakc Bay. . , ,
The Bangor Whig has this 'report fmm
Orono, Me. : "Some four years ago Mrs.
B., living on that part of Marsh Island
now known as Webster, visited her neigh
lxir, Mrs. P., one afternoon for a sx i d
chat, and was ushered into the parlor by
the attendant to await the arrival of Mrs.
P., who soon made her appearance. Tin
ladies conversed very oh asantly for a few
minutes, when suddenly a novel sight at
tracted ttitlr attention, and on stepping to
the mantlo they discovered that eleven
mice had, during the preceding cold day,
coiled themselves up on Ihechimney, and
their tails stuck out tixm the mantle,
through a crack in the finish of the room.
As quick as thought Mrs. P. left the
room, and, returning with a carving-knife,
dclilieraU-ly cut off the tails of every one
of them, with evident satisfaction, and
kept them to show to her husband as proof
of the truth of the story, w hen he should
return home at night. The next day she
performed the same operation upon lour
more, aud our informant adds that for the
next three years the cat would bring in,
occasionally, boli-taili-d mice."
A Desperado Killed hj a Hoy.
Fhom S. S. Peterson we learn that
Cal. ("oker, the half-breed Cherokee who
killed Isaac Journeycake, a prominent
citizen of the Nation, sometime last June,
met a similar fate the diy before yesterday
at the hands of a Delaware boy. Coker's
trial was to have taken plat e yesterday,
hut on Wednesday he escaped from his
guards and started to Lightning Creek to
see his wife. On the way he met a young
Delaware named Ivc, who was the
principal witness against him, riding
along the road with a ?ack of flour on Un
horse before him. (Joker atom: attacked
him wilh A revolver, lyive drew a jxx k t
knife and Iwg.iii carving the desjierudo in
return for the pistol shot. Every lime
Coker shot the ly would ward off the
weapon, and at the same time strike his
assailant with the knife. When Coker
had emptied his pistol loth now on the
gTound he drew a large knife, and the
tight liecame inorcdcs -crate. Finally the
Ixiy with his littb knife struck the fatal
spit, and (Joker, the i s-x radi, who has
lieen for years a terror to the x ople of that
section, fell a corpse at his feet. Tin
boy, however, was cut and sUbU-d almost
licyond recognition, and simultaneous
with the dying groan of the Uesjierado
tin- brave youth fell to the ground nearly
exhausted from the loss of blood and
severe pain from his wound". He started
on his hands and knees for home, a half
mile distant, but luckily had not pro
ceeded far until he met an acquaintance.
After is first expression of horror and
surprise at the appearance of the intrepid
young fellow, the man aked if he had
met Coker. " Yes," replied the boy ; " he
is down the road there watching my sack
of flour." The boy was taken home and
medical aid summoned, and it is now
probable that he will n-corer. Every
peaceable citizen of the Nation will rejoice
over the death of Coker, for his deeds are
many and of the most desperate character.
If the Delaware Council don't present
young Love with a handsome medal lot
bis bravery they will neglect au impor
tant duty. lndepewlcivce (Kan.) Courier.
Mr. Israel Fegely, of Longswuinp
Township, Berks County, Pa., has three
frogs in his house, which he has, tamed
and made household jn-ts of. They have
taken up their abode amocg a number ot
window plants, where they sleep at night
and feed upon the aphides, plant-lice, and
other insects injurious to plants. They
have become greatly attached to their new
home aud hop from one room to the other.
Extensive revivals arc reported in the
Baptist churches of Richmond, Vs.