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THE HERALD. iUBLISIIED EVERY THURSDAY PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA. Oo Via St.. One Block North of Main. Corner of Fifth St. OFFICIAL PAPER F CASS COIXTY. Terms, in Advance : :ne copy, one year ne couv, six month n.ii. runt, uuee monLhs ....f. ....'.f2.00 1.00 .10 NT GBMA HEJBLA D JNO. A. MACMUEPHY, Editor. PERSEVERACE C03QI7ERS. TERMS: $2.00 a Year. HENRY BCECIC. SCALER IV SAfES, CHAINS, Lounges, Tables, Bedsteads, KTO.. TC., TC, Of All Descriptions. METALLIC BURIAL CASES. "Wooden Coffins Of til eJzea, ready-made, and aold cheap for can With many thanki f.r paat palronaf , I lnvit (0 call ud examine my large stock op 9 Ii i r ii it it i-4? unci Collins. SHANNON'S Livery,Sale anflPeefl OIsT 2VT.-A.lisr STREET, E'itorthe Tlatto Va House. The Oldest Livs?y Stable in the Town. Good Teams Always On Hand. Cart-ful Drivers scut with carriages If desired. Cnrr1nges sent to Depot to meet trains whenever ordeied. The Only HEARSE In Town. Kune:a s attended and carriages furnished t friends. Address - J. W. SHANNON 4?ly PLATTSMOUTn, NEB. II. i. WATIiRMlX & SOX, Wholesale and Retail Dealers In PINE LUMBER, 1th, Shingles, SASH,' DOORS. BLINDS. ETC., On Main St., cor. Fifth, PLATTSMOUTH, NEB. STILL BETTER RATES 3Tox Xiiiribex. WINTER STOCK or H. A. WATERMAN & SON. WE "A'lLL SELL All Grades of Lumber Cheap. J. V. WECKBACH, GENERAL DEALER IN DRY GOODS Boots and Shoes, Cutlery, Queensware, AND ALL KINDS OF GOODS Needed by the Farmer or Householder, Corner 3d and Main Sts., FLATTSMOUTH NEBRASKA (Guthman's old stand.) In connection with the Grocery is a VOLUME. XI. O. F. JOHNSON, DEALER IS Drugs, Medicines, -1D 'TT1 : i WALLPAPER. AllPaper Trimmea Free of Charge - ALSO. DEALER VH Books, Stationery IVGAZINES AND LATEST PUBLICATIONS. tVireacrlpt!ons carefallj compounded j an experienced Dmryiat. . a 1 REMEMBER THE PLACE , Cor. Fifth and Main Streets, PLATTSMOUTn. NEB. FOUNDRY . AND MACHINE SHOPS. JOIIIV W.A.Y3JCAN, PLATTSMOUTn, NEB., Repairer of Steam Engines, Boilers, Saw and Grist Rills. OAS AND STEAM FITTINGS, Wronght Iron Pipe, Force and Lift Pipes, Steam Ganges, Safety-Valve Governors and all kinds of Brass Engine Fittings re paired on short notice. Farm IVIaolilxiory Repaired on Short Notice. 49-yl Sewing Machnes NEW, IMPROVED LOCK-STITCH GROVER & BAKER Sowing Jvlacliine, FOR SALE BY CHARLES VI ALL, With all the Extras and Attachments, such as Needles, Oil, Tuckers, Binders, Etc. Those who contemplate bnyine a machine will do well to eive the Grover & Raker a trial. Sat i-fac'ion guaranteed, and the cheapest machine in the market. All orders by mail promptly at tended to. Address me CHARLES VIALL, Plattsmouth, We. First National Bant Of Plattsmouth, Nebraska, SUCCESSOR TO Tootle, Ilauna Sz Claris. John Fitzoirald... E. G. Dovtr.A A. W. McLrr.imx. John O'ltot bk.e.... President. Vice-President. , ... Cashier. .Assistant Cashier. This Bank is now open for bnsiness at their new room, corner Main and Sixth streets, aud are pre pared to transact a general BANKING BUSINESS. Stocks, Bords, Gold, Government and Local Securities BOUGHT AND SOLD. Deposits Received and Interest Al lowed on Time Certificates. DRAFTS DKAWN, Available in any part of the United States and in alJ the Vrinci'pal Towns and Cities of a rope. (The old and well-known stand of frank Goth man), where the Fre&si cf E:d ::i C:::V.t:::::j Will AIwiijh XJo Xoiintl. tThe BEST PRICES the market will afford always paid for Country Produce. Remember the old sign, ' EMPIRE BAKERY AND GROCERY." THE OLD CLOTHING STAND or WM. STADELMANN, Nearly opp. Saunders House, on Main St. At the old place I still hold forth, and for th Centennial year 1 offer goods at '76 prices 1176, 1 mean. It j on do not believe it, come and see. A Large Stock, or Clothing, Men's and Boys'. HATS, CAPS. FURS, GLOVES and JEWELBY. Gents' Furnishing Goods in every variety. Boots and Shoe", Canes, Trunks, ValUes, Etc My stock or Boots and Shoes, Furs and Jewelry I am positively dosing out. Ills the last year 1 shall keep these lines. All Coods at' a Great Reduction in Prices. Plattamontb, Neb Jan. 3, 1876. PI. 11 fLATTSMOUTH NEBRASKA. Com n ad Hbiskl, Proprietor. FLOUR, CORN MEAL, FEED, : Always n hand and for sale at lowest cash prices. 1 ha richest Prices paid for Wheal and Cora. l'rUcai atUttlos girta to custom AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED INMAN LINE an! ALLAN LINE OF STILU1ERS. Persons wishing to bring out their friends from Europe can rURCHASB TICKETS FROM TS Tliroujjli to PlnttsmoHtli. Excelsior Barber Shop. J. C. BOONE, Main Street, opposite Saunders House. HAIR-CUTTING, Shaving and Shampooing. ESPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO Cutting Children's and Ladies Hair. Call and See Boone, Gents, And get a boon in a cijE jo. int s n -A. -r 23. B41-ly GO TO THE Post Office Book Store, H. J. STBXIGHT, Proprietor, ros top Boots. Stationery, Mores, Music, TOYS, CONFECTIONERY, Violin Strings, Newspapers, Novels, Song Books, etc., etc POST OFFICE BUILDISG, PLATTSJtOUTB, fiSZL, PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA. THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1876. CURRENT PARAGRAPHS. The Wisconsin and Iowa Legislatures have adjourned tine die. TnE wife of ex-Senator Schurz died in New York City a few days ago. The Virginia Democratic State Con vention will be held on the 24th of May. Announcement is made of the death of Rev. Robert Milan, I). I)., Bishop of Calcutta. The Ohio Greenback State Convention is !o4e held at Columbus on the Gth of April. Judge Taft, the new Secretary of War, has been sworn in and assumed the duties of the office. The Democrats of Ohio will hold their State Convention on the 17th of May, in Cincinnati. A call has been issued for the New York Democratic State Convention to meet on the 2Cth of April. The Mississippi State Senate has, by a vote of 32 to 4, found Lieut.-Gov. Davis guilty as charged in the articles of im peachment. The Massachusetts State Senate has adopted the Woman Suffrage' amendment to the State Constitution, by a vote of eighteen to ten. David A. Wells has been nominated for Congress by the Democrats of the Third Connecticut District, to succeeed the late II. II. Starkweather. A block of shipping houses in Port land street, Manchester, England, was burned a few mornings ago, involving a loss of several hundred thousand pounds. Bcnn'b Opera House at Springfield, III., was destroyed by fire a few days ago, and three adjoining buildings were badly damaged. Loss estimated at about $170, 000. . "The house of a wealthy farmer named Crosby, in Northern New Jersey, was robbed, a few nights ago, of $30,000 in money and other valuables by masked burglars. Roberts, the ex-President ot Liberia, died at Monrovia on the 2Gth of last month, and was buried with military honors. It is said Gen. Sherman has recently stated to a St. Louis reporter that he would decline a nomination for the Presi dency, "even if it were unanimous and enthusiastic." TnK Greenback State Convention of Michigan, to elect delegates to the Na tional Convention and nominate Presi dential electors, is to be held at Jackson on the 3d of Mav. It is reported from New York . that Daniel Drew, the famous Wall-street op erator in railway stocks, has gone into bankruptcy. His liabilities are estimated at f 1,500,000, partially secured. Messks. Edmunds and Morrill, of Ver mont, Morrill, of Maine, Christiancy, o Michigan, and Paddock, of Nebraska, are the Republican United States Sen ators who voted against the admission of Pinchback. The Bank of the State of New York, New York City, has suspended. The capital of the bank was $ 2,000,000. It is said th depositors and note-holders are fully secured, and that the stockholders will be the only losers. The Democratic State ticket of Rhode Island is as follows: For Governor, Gen. G. Lewis Cooke; Lieutenant-Governor, B. O. Slocum ; Secretary of State, John S. Price; Attorney-General, O. S. Lapham; Treasurer, W. P. Congdon. JosEFiius Sooy, the defaulting State Treasurer of New Jersey, has been sen tenced to the State Prison for three years, and until the, costs of the prosecution are paid. He wept bitterly on hearing his sentence. He is over sixty years old, and has a family who are highly respected. In a statement made to his congrega tion on the evening of the 12th, the Rev. Dr. Storrs, of the Church of the Pilgrims, Brooklyn, gave his reasons for resigning the Presidency of the American Congre gational Union. He condemned the rules laid down by the late Advisory Council for the admission of members and the guidance of Congregational Churches, and spoke disparagingly of many of the other acts of such council. He also thought the request of Andover Church to Plymouth Church perfectly proper, and that the council had no more right to deal with the matter than it had to conduct the trial of Gen. Baboock. At a business meeting of Dr. Storrs' church, on the evening of the 13th, resolutions were adopted by a large majority, repudiating the action of the Advisory Council, re nouncing fellowship with churches which adhere to the findings, and demanding a thorough investigation of the Beecher scandal. What the Microscope ReTeals. Lewenboeck tells us of an insect seen with the microscope, of which twenty seven millions would only equal a mite. Insects of various kinds may be seen in the cavities of a jrrain of sand. Mold is a forest of beautiful trees, with the branches, leaves and fruit. Butterflies are fully feathered. Hairs are hollow tubes. The surface of our bodies is covered with scales like a fish; a single grain of sand would cover 150 of these scales, and vet a scale covers five hundred pores. Through these narrow openings the per spiration forces itself like water in a sieve. Each drop of stagnant water contains a world of living creatures, swimming with as much liberty as whales in the sea. Each leaf has a colony of insects graz ing on it, like cows on a meadow. A Middletown (Conn.) compositor has calculated that in the course of a year's type-setting the average compositor will set up more than 7,000,000 separate pieces, which, with their distribution, require more than 14,000,000 motions of the hand. Boston's favor i to forger, the Rev. Mr. Winslow, has no small vices. One of his last remarks before embarking for foreign parts reveals the genius of his character " I was never born," he said, for a retail business." EPITOME OF THE WEEK. CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. Ox the morning of the 13th the boiler of a locomotive exploded at the Union De pot, in Indianapolis, and was completely wrecked, at the same time demolishing another engine standing on an adjoining track. The engineer of the latter was in stantly killed, and the fireman severely in jured. The engineer and fireman of the former were ou their engine at the time, but were not injured. The engineer was thrown twenty feet from Jhe engine into the street. The w hole west end wall of the depot and ten or fifteen iVet of the roof were completely demolished. A oood deal of excitement and curios ity has recently btien caused in Bath County, Ky., by the fall from the sky of a considerable quantity of what had the appearance of being flesh, in pieces rang, ing from about the size of a pea to that of a human finger. Specimens were sub mitted to a scientist of Louisville, who concluded that they were probably the dried spawn of Batrachian reptiles, doubt less that of the frog. He thinks they had been transported from ponds and swampy grounds by currents of wind, and had ultimately fallen on the spot where they were found. The organization of the French Senate was effected on the 14th. by the election of Duke D'Audiffret Pasquier as President, and two Vice-Presidents from the Left and two from the Right. The Chamber of Deputies elected Grevy as President, and three Vice-Presidents from the Left. Severe gales have lately prevailed along the French and English coasts, and great damage has been done afloat and ashore. On the 13th, an unknown brigan tine was seen to founder at midday, off Portland, and all on board perished. The Alms-House at Norwich, Conn., was burned on the night of the 12th, aud fourteen persons, most of them old reople (from sixty to seventy years of age), per ished in the tlameo. Five inmates were injured by jumping from windows, two of them fatally. Paris dispatches of the 15th report another inundation of the Seine, n Paris several of the more important bridges over the river were threatened, and travel over them had been prohibited. The Government tobacco factories and the fac tories at Alfortville had been flooded. At St. Maur, 200 houses were filled with water to the depth of several feet. During the gale of the 12th, at Cambray, eleven persons had been killed. High water was also reported along the Rhine, in Ger many. At a caucus of the Democratic members of Congress, on the evening of the 15th, the Payne Currency bill was agreed upon, by a vote of 69 to 46. This bill provides for the gradual resumption of specie pay ments by making it the duty of the Sec retary of the Treasury annually to retain in coin an amount equal to three per cent, of the legal-tender notes outstanding, to constitute a resumption fund, and also re quiring National Banks to set aside an amount of coin equal to three per cent, of their circulating notes. The bill, ia ad dition, proides for the repeal of so much of the Resumption act of Jan. 14, 1875, as designates the 1st of January, 1870, as the date of resumption. The news received on the morning of the ICth from the New Hampshire elec tion indicated the re-election ot Gov. Cheney (Rep.) by a majority of about 3,000. The Council stands four Republi cans and one Democrat. The Republicans elect njne out of twelve Senators, and will have a majority of twenty-five or thirty in the House. The total vote is nearly 81, 000, being the largest by over 1,000 ever cast in the State. A mass Greenback Convention was held at Syracuse, N. Y., on the 15th. Richard Schell was elected permanent President. The resolutions adopted declare opposi tion to any repudiation of the Nation's obligations, but assert that the act of Con gress of March, 18G0, promising to pay the 5-20's in gold, is a gross violation of the contract whereby said bonds were is sued, and said law was passed by fraud ; that the effort now making by the Secre tary of the Treasury to pay fractional cur rency in silver should be immediately pro hibited, as silver is worth less than curren cy ; that legal-tenders are a standard ot value, while gold constantly fluctuates for various reasons; that the amount of money required by the people depends on their intelligence; that legal-tenders should pay the bondholder his interest and all other debts, private and public, including duties on imports; that the act pledging resumption in 1879 is a failure, and its immediate repeal is demanded; that Con gress shoulof enact laws for the encourage ment of labor, agriculture and all other industrial interests, and for the develop ment of the Nation's resources and wealth by the people to the exclusion of monop olies. The Italian Minister of Public Instruc tion has ordered the Vatican University to be closed, on the ground that it is an ille gal establishment. Much damage lias been done in many sections of the West by severe storms of wind and rain which occurred on the 15th and 10th. Heavy floods are reported in some localities. A Paris telegram of the 17th says that on that day an arch of the railway bridge over the river 111, near Lauterturg, had given way under the pressure of the high water. A passenger railway train from Mulhouse to fctrasburg, which was cross ing at the time, was precipitated into the water, the cars falling upon each other and being dashed to pieces. Every pas senger was either crushed to death or drowned. Up to the morning ot the 18th thirty corpses had been recovered. According to a Washington telegram of the 17th, Att'y-Gen. Pierrepont had several daj-3 before sent an agent to Can ada to bring Mr Caleb P Marsh back to Washington, and word had been received that Mr. Marsh would soon return, terms of safety having been offered to him that would probably be acceded to. Several, of the parties indicted in Chi cago for whisky frauds entered pleas of guilty on the 17th. Among the number were A. C. Hesing and Jacob Rehm. - The Herzegoviniaa. rebels have to re ly for their subsistence upon onions and turnips, and the Turks find tliem a uti-ono- foe to contend against. FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Saturday, March 11. Senate not in section. ...A bill wu Introduced in the Ili nce, and referred, to transfer Ihe Pension Bnrean from the Interior lo the War Department. The Legislative and Judicial Appropriation hi'l wa further coni-iaered in Committee of the Whole, and tpeechea were made cn the currency ques tion. Monday, March 13. Mr. Morton's bill to provide for and reeulatc the counting of votes for President and Vice-Preident, wa taken op and debated in the Senate. . . Anions the bill in troduced in the Houe wa. one to provide tor a more certain rcmmptlon or specie payments on Jan. 1. Ih7i. Mr. llaker, of Indiana, oflVred a resolution declaring that the people of the United Statcn constitute one nation, and not a mere con federacy of State or nations; that the destitution was formed by the people aetinc in their primary and Individual capacity, through their du)y-c n plituted delepatas; that the National Government Is bovereisin and supreme, and in its nature er maneiit an1 indissoluble, except by the concent of tat whole people; that a.l overt acts of seces sion or reb lllon constitute trea-oil. nnd :hat the late war was ranseless nnd indefi'rlbl on any theory ot rijfht or Constitutional law. A motion to suspend the rules and adopt the re.-olutioo was rejectea yeas J)l. nays Vi less than two thirds in the affirmative: Very few Demo crats voted afllftna'iVely. Mr. Cox then offered a series of resolutions to the effect that the peo ple of the United fcta es constitute a nation in the sense, to the extent and 'or the pnrposes defined in the Constitution; that the Government is a Federal Union, formed by the People of the States in their sovereign capacity ; that the powers of the General Government are limited by the Constitution, and cannot be enlarged or diminish ed except by Constitutional amendinout: that the rlehts of the States have the same sanction ol security in the Constitution as the rights and powers of the Federal Government, that local domestic government jy the several States, within Constitutional limits, is absolute ly necessary for the preservation of the liberties of the citizen; that the doctrine of secession is in conflict wi n the idea of a perpetual Union, as contemplated by the Constitution, n1 should bo regarded as bviiiK forever extinguished by t e re sult of the recent cotifil t. A motion to suspend the rules and adopt the resolutions wa airreed to yeas ISO, nsys 4-i. All the Democrats and a few of the Republicans voted for the resolutions. The Conference Committee on the bill for the pay ment of interest on the 3.65 bonds of the District of Columbia was agreed lo. Tuesday, March 14. In the Senate, the bill fixing the salary of the President of the United States at $2000 was passed-yeas 2S, nays 20 Ilallctt. Kilbourne, who had re'itped to produce the books of his ttrm or to answer cer tain questions bo fore the Select C mtnittee on the Heal-Estate Pool and Jay Cooke Indebted ness, was brought before the Ilouse, and, still er sistine in his refusal to answer, was committed to the custody of the Serueant-at-Arms to be confined in the rommon jail of the District nntil he should purjfehinisell of his contempt. The Leg islative Appropriation hill was further debuted in Committee of the Whole. Wednesday, March 15. A bill was passed in the Senate to exclude Missouri from the provisions of the act to promote the devel opment of the mining resources of the United States A resolution of inquiry was adopted in the House as to the powers conferred on A. 11. Steinberger n a Special Aeent or Commissioner to the Sainoan or Navigator Islands. - Speeches we-e made, in Committee of the Whole, on the Legislative Appropriation bill. Thursday, March 1(J. A bill was in troduced in the Senate for establishing the Ter ritory of Pembina. A resolution was adopted re questing the Secretary of the Treasury to furnish information as to the annual product of cold and ilverin the United States from 1M5 to 1S75, in clusive, the amount In other parts of the world for the same years, and an estimate of the amount in the United States at the 1 resent time. The bill to provide for and regulate the counting of votes for President and Vice-President was further discus-sed. Adjourned to the U)ih In the House, the bill to snpply the deficiency iu the Currency Printing and Engraving Bureau of the Treasury Department (appropriating $lt3,000. and directing the Secretary of the Treasury to issue silver coin In redemption of all fractional currency outstanding) was debated iu Committee of the Whole. Friday, March 17. Senate not in ses sion ...But little was done in the House, beyond authorizing the Committee on the Centennial question to sit during the recess of Coneress, and adopting a resolution of inquiry into tha making of contracts for the transportation of army sup plies to Texas in 1871. Adjourned to the 20th. THE MARKETS. SEW YORK. Mine 11 IS, 1S7. Litb Stock. Beef Cattle $s.0CK3 12,25. Hogs Live, i . Sheep Live, $6.0CQ8 00. BKBADSTrrrs. Floor Good to choice, $3.30 C5.75; white wheat extra, 8027.75. Wheat No. 9 Chicago, fl. 231. 25; No. 2 Milwau kee spilng, $1.SS1.26. Rye-Western, 8 S'c. Barley 7 75c. Corn Mixed Western, 62&tjJHc Oats Mixed Western, 42&3c. Provisions. Pork Mess, $22.7S&J.S7V4. Lard Prime Steam. 13V4aiSS-. Cheese (&13o Wool.. Domestic Fleece, 42&85c. CHICAGO. Livb Stock. Beeves Choice, t5.00avBO; good, $4 t 80; medium, $4.0f 4.40; butchers' stock, $VJ5at.00; stock cattle, f 1.5 l.or. Uogs Live, $7.75S.T5; Good to choice, $5.21 C5. Provisions. Butter Choice, Fresh, 13&13V4c. Pork Mess, Lard $13.2513.30. Brkadstltps. Flour White 1.7fc7.50; Spring Extra, $4.0t &-,.2 Wheat Spring, No. 2. $l.U0!,fftl.01. Corn No 2,43! 14c. Oats No. 2, 32& c. Rye No. 2, 61 t4c. Barley No. 2. 58',&jQc. Lumber. First and Second Clear, $40.ro& 40; Common Boards, U.3 12.0.1; Fencing, $1.. 00 013.00; "A" Shingles, $1,502-3.00; Lath, $1.75 2 2 00. EAST LIBERTY. Livb Stock.- Beeves Best, $6.003tfi.5; me dium, $00 5.50. Hogs Yorkers, $.15L8.40; Philadeiphias, $9.259 5! Sheep Best, 6.25 C.6.75; medium, $4.35 25.75. Siac. Eggs $22.002i.I2. Winter Extra, DESTRUCTIVE TORNADOES. Detail oT the Itecent Storm at Hazel reen. Win., and In l'ortlo ol iTIIourl. Dpbuo.ce, Iowa, March 11. The Btorra entered the village of Hazel Green, Wis., at the northeast quarter, and turned across the south and middle part of the town, leaving a path from thirty to forty rods in width in utter ruin, a true descrip tion of which, with its attendant devastation and carnnge, no peD, however apt, could possibly delineate. Twenty-six houses were totally demolished, and their contents borne upon the winds iu every direction. Fields, yards, streets, nnd even the cemetery, over w hich the storm passed but slisrhtiy, are filled with the debris. Immense timbers, boards, ecnntlinjr and posts were thrown heavt nw ard, and driven deep in the ground in their descent. The first house in the village struck by the whirlw ind was a wooden structure, one story high, owned by John Funk, the roof of which waa partially carried away, without damage to the inmates. Further on it lifted a small tenement in its mighty arms, com pletely erushing the building, not a vestige of which, save the floor, is lclt. The family, consisting of Mrs. Farally and two daughters, took refuge in the cellar, and escaped injury. Crossing the street it swept the three-story stone structure known as the Masons and and Odd Fellows' hall from its foundation, and left it a shapeless pile of rock, mortar and shattered timbers. But a few feet to the eastward its mighty holts were launched against the stone resi dence of Mrs. E. Richards, and tumbled its roof and a portion of the walls upon the in mates, consisting of Mrs. E. and daughter Lizzie (aged sixteen), Mrs. T. II. Edwards and infant child, all of w horn were killed by the falling rocks. Johnson Richards, the Bon of the dead lady, at the time the whirl wind struck the premises, was in the hay loft of a barn on the lot, and was instantly killed, while Thomas Magor, a young man who was on the first floor of the barn, re ceived a frightful cut about the face, which, though not dangerous, will disfigure him for lite. The barti on the premises of Mrs. Richards was demolished, and a fine trot-ting-horse, owned by Thomas Wagner, in stantly killed by the falling timbers. Across the street from the Richards house, the wooden building occupied by Levi Eastman was racked and shattered as if under the tire of a hundred guns. . The house of Joseph Jackson was num bered among the ruined dwellings, and his son Alfred, a tine lad aged fourteen years, instantly killed. Mrs. Jackson was serious ly bruised in the back, and it is thought her spine is injured- The sorrow-stricken father related the terrible scene of ruin and death wliieh had visited his hearthstone, and while telling the sad story scalding tears coursed down his wcather-beatrn cheeks, and groans of deep distress broke his utterances. The spectacle was euch as to soften the stoutest heart, and, sick and sorrowful, we dropped a word ot sympathy and turned away. Thehousc of Dr. Klttoe was the last de molished in the village, and though not razed to the ground, there is scarcely a timber in the structure that does not bear evidence of the terrible assaults of the Whirlwind, while the building is moved up ward of three feet from its foundation, the second story blown off, and the whole east ern end carried away. The doctor perc-ived the coming danger, and. gathering his fam ily together, calmly awaited its coming; nnd come it did, with a fury which rent the frail tenement from top to bottom, and scattered the debris about and upon the pale inmates, not one of whom was injured in the least. The barn at the rear of Dr. Kittoe's prem ises was leveled to the grouud, and almost every vestige of the structure carried from the spot on which it stood. A pair of horses in the barn were lifted sixty feet into the air, and then shot oirin a tangent twenty rods, when they fell bleeding and dead. They were standing side by side in the barn, and when they fell they were only ten feet apart r.nd still occupying the same relative posi tions, the nigh horse on the nigh side and the oir horse on the off side. As they spun in the air, spectators forgot all fear of clan ger in watching the whirling horses, whose shrieks could be heard above the yell and roar of the hurricane. From this point the whirlwind traveled due east, passing over the cemetery, damag ing a lare number of slabs and ornaments, and covering the ground with boards, limbs, pieces of furniture and clothing. On it went, bent on its mission of death and destruc tion, until reaching the residence of Thomas AlU-i., which it lifted as if it were a feather, an:?, carrying it a short distance., dashed U in pieces, killing Mr. Allen and his son, aged twelve years, instantly, and badly in luring other members of the fanilv. The large furniture establishment of fcd and Matthew Thompson was-totally demolished. The building contained a valuable stock of furniture and cotlins. Mr. Jbas. bchahber'a blacksmith-shop was also tdown down, as was the extensive wagon and carriage manu factory of Joseph Clemenston, which, with its contents, are a total loss. The loss to property was estimated tft from 140,000 to i50,000. Sedalia, Mo., March 11. The tornado that passed through Monroe County yesterday was first seen at Monroe City, on the Missouri, Kansas A Texas Rail road, at four p. 111., passing there without damage. Three miles from there it blew down a furm-house, killing three women and severely crippling another. At HiiHsard, a two-story frame house wns completely demolished, and the section house, railroad depot, several build ings and two miles of plank fence destroyed, and one mile of telegraph wire stripped. Elizabethtown, a small village six miles from JIassard, sulfcred severely; every building, except three, was destroyed, in cluding two churches, and one woman and one child killed instantly. Two school children on the way home were overtaken by the storm atid carried away and have not since been heard from. Hay stacks were picked up and carried for miles, and fences generally destroyed. The citizens of Mon roe and Hassafd say they could hear the storm's rumbling noise for a great distanee The storm's width was about naif a mile. A passenger train lcftllassard only one minute before the depot was blown away. Tendlcton's Grab. We would like to be entirely satisfied with Mr. Pendleton's explanation before the Ilouse committee, but there is a pain ful something lacking which, in spite of all efforts to the contrary, rouses suspi cion. The explanation may answer for a Democrat, but if a Republican had made such a statement it would have been called decidedly "gauzy." Here it is, in brief: A railroad has a " claim" against the United States for $150,000. The claim is disapproved by the Quartermaster-General and rejected by the Secretary of War (Stantou). Afterward Gen. Belknap be comes Secretary. His wife and sister are the friends of the President (Pendleton) of the railway company, are friends or ac quaintances of the principal stockholders, aud are very naturally anxious to do a favor to all of these persons whenever opportunity offers. The claim is pre sented again by the President (Pendleton) of the road, who contracts with himself to give half he recovers to himself as attor ney. Contrary to all precedent, the claim isreopeued. It is again referred to the Quartermaster-General, and again disap proved. Then it is taken out of the Iat ter's hands and referred to a minor official, who reports in favor of its pay ment. The report is indorsed by the Secretary of War, since confessedly guilty of official wrong-doing, ia hurriedly passed through the various stages necessary, and the money paid over to Mr. Pendleton, who pockets $75,000 or $0,000 (he can not remember exactly which now), pays other attorney fees, and the little balance at last finds its way to the railway com pany. There is the story in brief. Sen ator Stevenson testified that he was one of the btockholders, ana was well satisfied with the share the company received. Why was he satisfied? If the claim was a legal and equitable one, the attorney fees were monstrous. If it was not, how did Mr. Pendleton get it through? Mr. Stevenson saj-s he was surprised and grati fied when he heard that it was settled. Why surprised, and, we might ask, why gratified? Was it not because the claim was regarded as one that had been passed upon and permanently disposed oil ? Ani what remarkable statute did Mr. Pendle ton discover that convinced the Secretary of War and his subordinate (though, no one else) that the demand was a just and proper one ? There is something behind all this that has not yet been told. So far as Mr. Pendleton's testimony is concerned, he seems to have organized a little Credit Mobilier all by himself, and to have swept the table pretty clean thereby. Rut what other links ia the story may possibly un fold we can only imagine, waiting mean while for the chain to be completed. Inter-Ocean. The A'cvi Hampshire I lection. The unusual developments of the past month at Washington invested he voting of yesterday with great importance, chierly because the Democratic newspa pers and politicians throughout the coun try have been confidently looking forward to see the Republican part' punished for the misdemeanors of a Cabiuet officer. When it is discovered that the .New Hampshire Republicans have not only held their own, but have made substan tial gains in most of the towns 01 the State, the Democratic mind will be sorely grieved, and will once more be compelled to inquire why it is that people will insist on electing and re-electing a corrupt par ty? To which it may be answered that no party can be called corrupt while it retains and exercises the power of self purification, as the Republican party has done; and that the people have more faith in the willingness and the ability of the Republican party to prevent wrong and punish wrong-doers, than in the specious promises of tne Democratic party in the direction of public reform. If the people of New Hampshire believed that the sins of Belknap were the sins of the Republi can party, they would have given the Democratic ticket a large majority yester day ; but when they found that the Republicans in Congress were more urgent and more honest than the Democrats in their demand for the punishment of the offending Secretary, they could not entertain any belief ot the kind. They resolved that it was safer to trust the Republican party to continue in power than to give the reins of Government to an organization known to be under the control of men like Hill and Toombs, and Southern desperadoes of hat class. It would require a case ol Belknap every week from now till No vember to persuade the American people that it would be to their interest to have a Democratic Administration of the Gov ernment, and even then the Bourbons would be taken only an a choice of evils. St. Louis G lobe-Democrat. NUMBER 52. OUR WOMEX.- What is the thtme that now I sing. With rattling bones and banjo's ring. While tambouriue aloft 1 fling? Our Women t Who is it, in our hour of cae. Uncertain, coy, and hard to please. Through life's tight places men lo squeeze? Our Women ! Who smile when favorite china breaks T Who take the topmost btl kwheat cakes T Who nurse the buoy when it wake? Our Women 1 Who drop the needle lor the pen. And make the echoes ring again. To wake those stupid things, the men? Our Women! Who kindled the Centennial flame In distant States, w here, dull and tame. The men forgot their country's famcr Our Women ! Who. when the men. in blank dlsmn). Sit wondering if the thing would pay, hulled hack tticir skirts aud led tlni way? Our Women ! Who stormed old Independence Hall And woke the counc ils, one and all. With sixty-thoiisand-powcr call I Our Women ! Who, when Centennial stork was low Did bravely take their books and go. And beg a "share from every Lean ? our Women! Who leave the cradle and the tub? Who coax pupa and wheedle hub. Unheeding jest end gibe and snub? Our Women' Who waked the davs of WahlngIon, Contriiiig.'i and lair and Inn, While Polly puis the kettle on? Our Women Who, in the loveliest array. Turn work Centennial into play. Ana tather money every day? Our Women ! Who, when the days of toil were long; When 'neuth the burden bowed the strong. Still cheered the lamt with buoyant soug? Our Women ! And sang that lay that no man wrote: " Forever shall our banner float. Our orillanune, the Petticoat!" Our Women ! Who. when Centennial days are o'er, And I'u'totisin at-ks no more. Will be the things we most adore? Our Women! -Carrlral of Author. Amah. Desperate Fight with a Panther. George Hinckley was last Friday night, at eleven o'clock, driving from Corinth to Conklingville, Saratoga County, N. Y., somewhat belated. There was no moon and the road was uncertain, owing to the rough weather whic h has prevail d in that section for two weeks or more. He was in a light cutter, well protected from the cold by robes and blankets, and M as driving a spirited horse. The road lay through some undergrowth of woods. While the horse was jogging along at a moderate trot, f-uddenly he stopped, threw his ecrs forward, gave a furious snort and refused to go further. The driver urged him to go and finally (-truck him with a halter, the strap end of which was tied to the cutter in order to prevent its droppinc out and becoming lost. The horse jumped forward in a frightened manner, but be fore he had taken three frlcps a huge panther sprang from behind a low ever green close 1)' the track and leaped squarely into the cutter. As it struck the cutter iti fore paws came with great force against Hinckley's breast, and with one haul with its powerful nails the man's clothing was stripped clean from his kin. Hinckley had the halter with which he had just struck the horse still in his hand, and instinctively he laid it with all his might over the head of his fierce assailant. By one of the blows the headstall was passed over the panther's head. It being a slipping-noose, the next effort to Mrike drew the noose tight about the panther's neck. Then a desperate, hand-to-hand, as it were, tight ensued. The man strug gled to throw off the beast, but succeeded only so far as to prevent it from fastening its powerful jaws upon his now baie neck. The panther grabbed the man's left armwhich.it bit through and throuph, the blood which Uowcd only seeming to make it the more furious. With his right arm Hinckley tightened the slip ping noose about the animal's throat. So tight was it drawn by that strength which comes of desperation that the panther was choked so that it let go its hold on his arm and gasped, at the same time strip ping its victim of clothing and lacerating his skin with itssharp claws. With the first spring of the panther, accompanied as it was with a wild, fierce growl, the horse took fright and ran at full speed, every leap fairly lilting the cutter from the track. Thus, while Hinckley was struggling for life in the cutter, the horse was running away. But this proved to be the salvation of the driver; for in making a short turn in the road the cutter was overturned, dumping driver and panther out upon the frozen snow. The moment they struck the earth, however, they parted company. One end of the halter being fast to the cutter and the other tight about the wild animal's neck, the latter was mercilessly dragged after the flying steed, its body jumping and bounding along the road like a tin pan hitched to a clog's tail. The running away of the horse saved Mr. Hinckley's life. He was left by the roadside, whence he in coure of time found his way to a house. The horse ran till he got loose from the cutler and then he went to Conklingville. The cutter, badly shattered, was found half a mile from the spot where the panther leaped from behind the bush. The animal was dead, choked to death, and badly bruised. It was a narrow escape, and one of the most peculiar and desperate struggles that ever occurred Wetween man and beast. Saratogiaii. Taken at II fr Word. There i3 a young gentleman in this town who is looked upon as a sort of woman-hater, and who, it was believed until recent h', would not marry the hand somest and best woman 011 earth if every hair in her head was a Koh-i-noor dia mond. On account of leap-year, some young ladies concluded to put up a job on this young man, and arrange it for one of their numlwr to propose marriage to him, whilethe others watched the fun through holes bored in a partition. The gentleman was invited to call at the house of the young huh' who was to do the proposing, and on the designated evening he was there, seated in the parlor, while the accessories to the plot were stationed at their eye-holes. After some desultory conversation about the weather and the club party, the young lady suddenly dropped on her knees before the gentle man, and in endearing terms declared her passion : " Darling," she said, " I long have loved thee, but the cruel conventionalities of society have forced me to conceal my passion. Leap year, which gives to op pressed woman one blessed privilege, i now here, and I take advantage of it to tell thee I adore thee. Iok not thus coldly on me. dearest ; spurn me nt from your presence. See me on my bended knees imoloring that you will net say me nay. Grant me but one Lisa from those ruby lips; fold-me to thine arms and say that thou wilt be mine; mine, only mine, forever and for aye." Contrary to expectation, the guntleman displayed not the least astonishment dur ing the foregoing recital, and when it was concluded he went over to the stove, and, folding his hands under his coat-tails, thus replied : " I'm told your dad owns a hundred shares of North Carson, and that you've got two brindle bull-dogs in jour own right and without incumbrance; likewise I am informed that you are a good baud THE HERALD. AUVKItTIMAO rtATK?. 1 1 square.. squares 8 squares. V column X colnmn. Iw.ijw. ;!.! in. 3 m. ; (I m. I I ye. 1 on f 1 AO f'ifO i Ml 5 00 txoti H 1 Mil a ki 5 00 H 00 a 0 i II 7-', .1 2 . 1 ! 1" 2 7.V 4 oil! 4 7-' Mil 1-1 (lo V) 00 10 1x1 12 no ao now ! 8 12 0O l!S tie 1H 0O 25 00 40 0"! M Ok 1 column. 1: 00 18 00 21 On 2-i 40 On oO (l 1UO tr All Advertising bills due quarterly. 9f Transient advertUeinentj must b paid f J In advance. Extra copies of the HrKAt-D for snlo by II. J. Straight, at tho i'osiotnre, and O. F. Johuoa, cor ner of Alain and Vifth street. making ship jacks and biscuit; thnt you don't chaw gum. which, by the way, is powerful exjH'nsive these hard times. In view of these fac ts I consent, and leave it to you to name the day." Horrified, the lady tried to explain that it was alia joke, but the gentleman would not accept any such explanation, and threatens a breach of promise suit unless she fulfills her promise, in w hich event he w ill summon the peeHT" as w itnesse". Auttin (X(c.) I tit tell. A Failure. The Democrats do not succeed well In the role of reformers. It does not suit their tastes, habits, or inclination;, and they get on in it something as an old toper who should undertake to lec ture on tem jwrancp, wetting his whistle with black strap or brandy after every pause. They seem to have been so tickled at the dis covery of a mare's nest in the War De partment which they could use for polit ical capital that they kept the matter from the knowledge of the Republican mem bers of the committee as long as possible, and only reluctantly admitted them into the secret at last. But I hey blundered fatally at the business. Tin y let Marsh, the most important witness ngainst Bel knap they had, escape from their hands and from the country in spile of the warning of Mr. Bass, "and now the im peachment business over which thev made such a demonstration hangs in mid air, a mortifying exhibition of Democratic incompetency. They ticcused the Cab inet of scaling Marsh away; but the Cab inet did not hold its meeting till that ras cal, who had been dismissed by Clymer, was crossing the Canada line." They raved because the civil court asked the members of the committee to furnish the data for a suit against Belknap to the Grand Jury, when they were already under the protec tion of the House and could not have Wen taken out of it by force. In short, they have bungled and blundered through tho whole business from the outset by trying to use a public misfortune for a private partisan end, and squeeze political capital out of a National calamity. Every move they make in the investigation business shows their ignorance and incompetency. and tlieir umvillingncs. io go tf,t torn of the mati"r.d propose it in. edy in a thorough reform of tlnsry. iVt proves their lac k of earni Ji begins to look as though there . ocratic cat under the ineul wlJr. alraid of exposing, for it is hnf e v a set ol congressional poiiin mr j as siumci as inese jm hum iuiiis appear to be. V. J . (iripn A Terrific Bear III O:; Saturday evening two . started for the Black Hills on fom , ame into town in a hurry, and said they had seen a bear about four miles west, close to the track. He was in a large hole in the snow, and, as they came along, stuck his bend out. As they had not lost any bear they did not stop hi see whether there was more than one, nor how large that one was. The news soon spread, and despite the terrible snow-storm, a party of a dozen or more was at once ready to start for tho scene. Engine No. 25, "run by W. R. Dic kinson, was brought into requisition, and for fear there might be more bears than could be otherwise accommodated, the six-pounder piece of artillery that has so long stood guard over the Presbyterian Church, was mounted on top 01 the ten- i f t s j s (Z cler. All the old gum that could tie got 1 together were leeured, and the engine I started for the place where the snow would j soon lie covered with fur and blood from j a score of huge grizzlies. In a fhort time i the soot was reached, but the storm had filled the entrance of theTave with snow so that all that could be seen was one or two heaps of dirty-snow. As soon as tho engine slopped Joe McManus, Mr. Earll, Frank Foote and Mr. Allen jumped off to catch Ihe liear. " When; is it ?" said Joe, and started for a heap of snow that might be the opening of the cave, but just then he broke through, his feet probably strik ing bruin on the head, for uv, Ht once drawn out it called for help. On l:ing drawn out 11 was found the bear had secured one of hi boots. At this juncture Johnnie Hoyt an, " Jessie Knight, gc ttingconsiderablycxcU-.i commenced to load the artillery with Y' f i lumps of coal, and Joe Ed son heated the poker to touch it oil, but it would not go. Upon examination, it was found in the hurry the powder had Ix en forgolten. The firearms they had with them were then brought into requisition, and the snow for ten rods square lxired with bullets. The shovel brigade then turned loose, bent uoon finding bruin if he was there. After diirtnnir a while, what was their surprise to come across the head of a cow that had I been killed by a train. Concluding that I must have been the bear that was seen, the I bravo hunters returned home. Y Several persons who were out yesterday found a ground-hog, which they conclude to have been the supposed bear. Evaiuton ( Wyoming) Age. FACTS AM) FIGURES. Deep snows in Utah have caused the death of 4,000 cattle this year. The licenses to shoot game in Scotland amount to $:,000,00 annually; or more than all the game is worm. Trv. number of nauiR-ri In the metro politan district of London on the last day of the fourth week ot January, 17, was b'J,H'), of whom 37,405 were in work houses, and 51,74! received out-door re lief. Pkof SciiE-vr, cne or the Lest of Ameri can writers on statistics, estimates the number of the population of the globe under the governme nt of Christian rulers to be CH5, 450,1 11, and the number under non-Christian rulers at 7ll,'.iH'2,TS'J. Dr. Warkev, of Boston, once said that that city sacrificed iX-K) babies every year by not clothing their arms. Many babies are improperly clothed. The arms are exposed, the legs often, and a thick Land age is frequently tightly drawn around m the abdomen. These errors in clothing are almost as bad in their effects as the error of diet, especially in a climate so changeable as the American. The New York Erening J'ont says: "A man has been found who does not com plaiu at the law's delays. He lives in a house which is the subject of a Iaw-uit, and having been ordered by both litigants to pay no rent t the other; he hopes the contest may continue for years." There was a similar case in Detroit not many years ago; but the rival owners unfortu nately came toan understanding before the tenant was half done with the house. Remarks the Utioa (N. Y.l UtraUl: "Card-players who are continually Ijcwail ing their ill-luck of always receiving the same poor cards, will, ierhaps, be reas sured by knowing that titty two cards, with thirteen to c;ieh of the foiirjilHyers can be distributed in 5:,fil4, 7:57,750", 3SS, 7!I'2,h:'0,2:57,440,(K.K) different ways, so that there would still be a good slock to draw from, even if a man from Adam's time had devoted himself to no other occupation than that of playing at cards." IIekr Kuril', the Prussian iron-founder, has discovered a means of utilizir. the slag of iron furnaces by converting it into "siheatecotton," to be used as a cloth ing for steam boilers and steam pipes, lo prevent loss of heat. A blast of steam, water, or air is forced into the stream of viscous slag as it is run from the furnace when it assumes a fibrous form rml pearance, somewhat similar t t j spun glass. Having thus succ ! ' plied it, and found it to be ' '. venient way for utilizing the ; '. blast-fu ruances, Krunp hits u; s its introduction into England. J i a 7 d 7 'J