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OFFICE:
Od mjfBt One Block. ISortl of Main.
Corner of Fiftii
tXTxn Advertising bill due qaArtorty.
ttrTranslent adTerUaemeiits mnrt be paid"
tor in advance.
JNO. A. MACMURPHYy Editor.
"PERSEVERANCE CONQUERS.'
TERMS: $2.00 a Year.
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COL'NTV.
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Aie copy, eU month . l.ee
One copy, three months . ... .50
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son.corner ol Main and Filth Streets.
VOLUME xn.
PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1876.
NUMBER 35.
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XXAXXA A CLABK,
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A. W. l!cLtCOBUjr...
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President.
Vice President.
CMhier.
..... Assists t Caahier.
Tills Bank U new pen for bnsincM at their
new r!?. corner llain and Sixth street, and
13 Prepared W transact a general
BANKING BUSINESS.
rities .
BOUGHT AND SOLD.
&zpmetts Received and Interest Allott
ed on Time Certificates.
DIS-AJE-rS 33 IRA. W JST,
Available la any part of the United States and
su ail tfce rnneipai Towns and Cities
of Kurope.
AGE.1TS FOR TUB
CELEBRATED
Itiiaji Line and Allan Line
OF 8TKA&EBS.
Person, wiabiag to brtnj; omt their frendi from
Cuopean
rVBCRASK TICKKTS TKOX
Tkrench te Plattsmesith.
New Tailor Shop !
"W. Xj. . TZHlOTVT a s,
4 COLORED TAILOR,
has opened a shop
n (VUiK.nxt doert Dr. Ja.BlMk's
OCleo.
ire is a
Professional Vorkman,
tm gtrw good satisfaction, so far and
. PROPOSES TO STAT I
tf Ce people five him the requisite 'ineonr
agement. C3-003D FITS,
WARRANTED,
AND ALL OEEIiS ATTENDED
TO PROMPTLY. 141y
TE3 OLD STAKE) OF
WM. STADELMANN,
Hearly opp. Saunders House, Main St.
At the eld st&ud I utill.hold forth, and for the
Centennial year 1 offer goods at 7 prices 1776.
2 Kteaa. If yea do not believe It.couie and see.
A Large Stock of Clothing,
MEN'S AND BOYS
EAC-, CAPM. CLO?F.M,
CAars, TRisas, tai.ises,
etc., etc., ete., etc.
A3 Hoods oim Ortat UhrfWon n Triem.
E. PARMELE,
SALE, FEED & LI VERT STABLE.
At :ae old Hyatt Barn, (lately Jone's' stable)
ta Ffottsiaoath. Nek. 'Will keep eonstantly.en
iatad a aaoiber of
Horses for SaEe.
The bnytng and selllne of cx! horses made
Cm Kpecialty of the business. A new
PONY PHAETON,
wtt geetle horses, for Ladies te drive U kept
4 iiUkle.
FARMERS CALL AND EJ AMINE
UT STOCX FOR SALE.
E. PARMELE.
FOB TOCB
Patter yeu eell oa dot
Ben Hempel.
THE MAN,
KEEPS AN EATING HOUSE.
ON LOWEB MAIN STREET,
yZATTSlfOUTH, .... NEE.
Meals at all Hours.
AJv Wines and rood Uquors to be nsid rea
HAftWy, for four benefit if you desire.
401 B. HEMPEL, Prop.
HENRY BCFCK.
DEALER IN
SAPES, CHAIRS,
LenngBS, Tables, Bedsteads,
tra, nc, htc..
Of All Descriptions.
METALLIC BURIAL CASES
vooeeit consrs
Of ii sum, ready saade and sold cheap for cash.
"With many thanks for past patronage. I Invite
m rite all to call and examine my
LARUE STOCK OF
4CU. 1? ITU SITU IS IS AID COFFIXS.
Excelsior Barber Shop.
J. O. BOONE,
Zfatn S treat, opposite Saunders House.
HAIR-CUTTING,
Slmvlnsr and Shampooing.
ESPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO
Cutting Children's and Ladles'
II air.
CALL AND SEE BOOE. GENTS,
And jzt-: z. Nvjne
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
AC PASCY CARDS, 11 styles with name
L O lOcts post paid, J. U. llustedNasaau, Kens.
Co., N. Y. S3t4
NO
We will start you In a business
you can make $50 a week without
T.T fi W C V capital easy and respectable for
111 U 11 Ld I either sex. Arents JsuddIt Co..
261 Bowery, New York.
fPHTC If you want the best selling
A VI HI I 1 O article In the world and a sol
id gold patent lerer watch, free of cost, write at
once to J. BKIDE A CO.. 767 Broadway N. Y. 4t
A P PWPQ Investigate the merits of the Illua
AUIill 1 0 trated Weekly, before determining
upon your work for this fall and winter. The
combination for thU season surpasses anything
heretofore attempted. Terms sent free on ap
plication. Address CIIAS. CLUCAS A CO., 14
Warren St., N. Y.
RUPTURE.
Since rupture Is dangerous and the Elastic
and other truBses Injure those who use them,
all classes are throwing them away and usiag
Dr. Sherman's Rupture Support and Curative
Compound, which gives relief in all cases and
restores the parts to natural vigor. Ir. Sher
man's books with valuable information and
likeness of bad cases before and after cure sent
for 10 cents. Office 1 Ann St., New York. Save
this.
AGENT3 WANTED FOR THE STORY OF
DHnairlyIEi
Yritten by his father. A eomplete account of
this most mysterious abduction and exciting
search. With fae-simile letters and illustra
tions. Outsells all other books. One agent
took 50 orders in one day. Terms liberal. Ad
dress, John E. Potteb. & Co.. Publishers, Phil
adelphia; IN PRESS OUTFITS READY THE
CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION.
DESCRIBED AND ILLUSTRATED.
A graphic pen picture of Its history, grand
buildings, wonderful exhibits, curiosities, great
days. etc. Profusely illustrated, thoroughly
popular and very cheap. Must sell immensely,
5.000 agents wanted, send for full particulars.
Thin will be the chance of 100 years to coin
money fast. 6et the only reliable histoiT. N.
1. Thompson A Co., Pubs. 509 N 3d St., 8t.
Louis. Mo.
p nqiTniiT Be no deceived by premature
UuUliUil books, assuming to be "ofncial"
and telling what will happen In August and
September.
MAeON & HAMLIN
CABINET ORGANS
Llave been unanimously assigned the
tire SEVERAL REQUISITES"
OF SUCH INSTRUMENTS AT THE
U. S. CENTENNIAL 1876.
and are the only organs assigned this rank.
Their superiority Is thus declared, not in one or
two respects only, but in all the Important qual
ities of an organ. A medal and diploma have
alxo been awarded them, .ut medals of equal
value were awarded all articles deemed
worthy of recognition, so that many makers
can advertise "first medals" or "highest
awards."
Comparative rank in excllence. has been de
termined bv the Judges' Reports alone, in
which the Mason t Hamlin Organs are unani
mously assigned "the first rank in the several
requisites" of aeh instruments, and are the
only ones assigned this rank. Soe Judges' Re
ports. This result was not unexpected, for
these nrgaus have uniformly taken highest
awards in such compelion, there being les.i
than six exceptions in hundreds of compari
son. They were awarded first medals, and
highest honors at Paris i;7. Vienna 1873, San
tiago 1875. Philadelphia 1S76 ; having thus been
awarded highest honors at every world's exhi
bition at which they have competed, and being
the only American organs which ever obtained
anv award in Europe.
New etyles, witii improvements exhibited at
the Centennial ; elegant new cases In great va
riaty. lrices very lowest consistent with best
material and workmanship. Organs sold for
cash or installments, or rented until rent pays.
Every organ warranted to give entire satisfac
tion to every reasonable purchaser or the
money returned. Illutrated catalogues sent
free.
Mason & ITamlin Organ Co. 154 Tremont St.,
Boston ; 25 Union Square, New York ; 82 Adams
Street, Chicago. J34t
Great Mercantile College. Keokuk, Iowa, on
the Mississippi. Prof. Wm. H. Miller, General
Manager. Nineteenth year. About sixty dol
lars nay all expenses, for Membership, Board
aud Stationery. Bookkeepers, Penmen, Repor
ters,Operators,Architects,i$urveyors and Teach
ers thoroughly fitted. English branches free.
Free Lectures by Eminent Orators. Free Fes
tivals with Brass Band in College Flail. Free
lurnisned rooms lor sell boarding, leiegrapn
Ingfree. Shorthand writing free. Good board
ing clubs, and family board. Railroad fare de
ducted. Immense business In Keokuk. Nova
cation. Address Baylies College, Keokuk, Iowa.
State where you saw this advertisement, llyl
FRESH MEAT
' Come Here Roast Beet
Walk In Mutton Chops.
SING OUT
PORK STEAKS,
game, risn. ForrL,sAtrsAOK.Airr all
.1 OTHER MEATS IN SEASON AT
YOUNG'S Butcher Shop,
PLATTSMOUTH, NE1K
LOWER MAIN ST., - - - SOUTH SIDE.
30in3
TTTsTTTTTT"
Te the Working Class. We are now
prepared to furnish all classes with constant
employment at home, the whole of the time, or
for their spare moments. Business new, light,
and profitable. Persons of either sex easily
er.rn from 60 cents to $5 per eveuing, and a pro
portioual sum by devoting their whole time to
the business. Boys and girls earn nearly as
much as men. That all who see this notice may
send their address, and test the business we
make this uu parallelled offer; To such as are
not well satisfied we will send one dollar to pay
for the trouble of writing. Full particulate.
samples worm several uouars to commence
work on, and a copy of Home and Fireside, one
ot the largest ana nest illustrated publications,
all sent free by mail. Reader, if you want per
manent and profitable work, address
ueorub oTixsox 4: Co., Portland, Me.
As are the experiences of this life, none are
without its silver lining. Trouble and cares
come ; some abide with us ; some pass away.--To-day
the body Is vigorous, to-morrow it Is
dead and gone ; lile at best is short and the
great problem how to perpetuate it is still un
solved. Ufe, however, can be prolonged, the
weak and feeble body made strong, no matter
from what cause induced, and instead of being;
a burden to uispeptie and debilitated bodies,
can le made and euduring pleasure : But liowT
Simply by the daily and moderate use of Dr.
Green's Bitter Tome. This truly medicinal pre
paration Is not a cheap and trashy article. In
tended simply to stimulate and then leave the
second state of the body worse than the first,
but It generally relaxes the bowels, stimulates
the liver, making it work off the poisonous hu
mor of the blood, controls and regulates diges
tion, thereby removing the cause of headaches
and low spirits, relieves flatulency and foul
stomach, giving tone and stability to that or
gan with an increased and healthy appvtite ;
regulates female weaknesses, prevents fever
and ague and malarious diseases, protects the
system from unwholesome air and Impure wa
ter, and vitalizes and tones the whole body
against all attacks of disease. Tiy it. and you
win find it pleasant to the tasie and healing to
the body.
In sudden or severe cases of Liver Complaint,
or in ronstit'.9tirii if the bowels, a few doses of
Dr. Green's Liv..-r Pills will nssist the Tonic in a
i cure, and if yr.-i are shaking with ague, Ir.
G-vc-i's Xfwe fills will drive it aw v.
. Porsa'c lv W. ii. L.r.vtn ami O. F. J'din-
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OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Skhatoks P. W. Hitchcock, Omaha ; A. 8.
Paddock, Beatrice.
Kxpbksjtativ L. Croiuie, Ft Calhoun.
STATE.
OT"EirsoR Silas Garber, Lincoln.
Ssscbetaht Bruno Tzschuck, Lincolk.
T mcasurer J. G. McBnde, Lincoln.
. Auditok J. B. Weston, Lincoln.
Attokmst ttBXuujr-Q. H. Roberts, Lin
coln. Sur-T. Public ijrsTXVcno jt J. V. ZUKtm
zle, Lincoln.
LEGISLATIVE.
' Senator, tk District Bam. M. CTiAptcan,
Plattsmouth. .
Rki'kksentati vks, 25th District Jno. w.
Barnes, Plattsmouth ; Jno. Rouse, Ciretnwood.
JUDICIAL.
Scprem JunoKS Geo. B. Lake, Omaha ;
Daaiel Gantt, BrownvlUe ; Samuel Maxwell,
Fremont. ,,...
COUNTY.
CtKBK C. P. Moore, Plattsmouth.
Treasurer J. C. Cummins, Plattsmouth.
Sheriff M. B. Cutler, Plattsmouth.
Commissioners E. G. DoveyPlattsmoutb ;
W. B. Arnold, Greenwood ; . B Ramsey,
Louisville.
ComoKE B. F. Seed, Eoek Huffs.
CITY.
Mator It. R. Livingston.
Treasurer Wm. Winterstern,
Clkbk W. F. Bennett.
Con.vcii.MKs, 1st Wabi J. Pepperherg. If.
Neville.
CouifCiutBir, Id WAi P. L. Wise, J. V.
Weckbach.
Counsilmek, Sd Ward Wm. L. Wells, R.
Donnelly.
Cocncilm kjt, itu Wabd F.R. Guthman, J.
Heffner.
B. & M. R. R. Time Table.
Corrected Sunday, January SOfA, 1876.
OS OMAHA FROM PLATTS MO CIH.
Leaves 5 :45 a. m. Arrives 8 30s.ni.
130 p.m. 1 :45 p.m.
FROM OMAHA FOR PLATTSMOUTH.
Leaves )s.a. Arrives 10 -.34 a. m.
4:00 p. m. " 5 :06 p. m.
- .-00 p.m. T :45p.m.
FOR THE WEST.
Lesves Plattsmouth 9).m. Arrives Lln
oln, 12 H5 p. m. ; Arrives Kearney, 9p.m.
6t. Louis Express Leaves Plattsmouth,
4 ri5 p. in. Arrives, Lincoln, 6 :40 p. m.
Freight leaves T :i a. m. Ar. Lincoln It itt p.m.
- 110 p.m. " " S :50a.m.
FROM THE WEST.
Leave Kearney, 5 :40 a. b. Leaves Lincoln,
12 ?15 p. m. Arrives Plattsmouth, 1 :15 p. m.
St. Louis RxPREsa Leaves Lincoln, T iX a.
m. Arrives Plattsmouth, 0 :24 a.m.
Froight leaves Lincoln 11 :15 a. m. Arrives
Plattsmouth, 4 :12 p. m.
Leaves Lincoln 7 JO p. m. Arrives riatts
mouth, 11 U0 p. m.
GOING EAST.
Express, 6 H30 a. m.
Passenger, (train each day) S :50 p. m.
A RR1VAL AND DEPARTURE OF PLATTS --
iOUTU MAILS.
EASTERN, VORTHEKX & SOUTHERN
i i I Depart at - 6 :30 a. m.
Arrive at - t :50 a. m. j n. j :0o p. m.
OMini VIA B. A M.
Arrive at 10 :M a- m. 1 Depart at - J :1 p. n
fTESTBTUf VIA R. H M.
Arrive at - 3 :15 p. m. Depart at - ( AO i. m.
. vKmxa WATER.
Arrive at 12 :oo m. i Depart at - 2 rtX) p. ra.
ROCK BLUFFS & UNIOJf MILLS.
Arrtvo at 12 :00 m. Depart at - 1 :00 p. m.
J. W. MARSHALL. P. M.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
It. B. WISSI1AU,
ATTORNEY and Counselor at Law. Real
estate bought and sold. Taxes paid : and spe
cial attention given to collections. Oflice over
Dr. Chapman's Drug Store, Plattsmouth. 37yl
SA9 3t CIIAI'MAX.
ATTORNEY AT LAW and Solicitor in Chan
cery. Office in Fitzgerald's Block, Plattsmouth,
Nebraska.
J. Lu ScCBEA,
DENTAL SURGEON. Is always on hand ; Of
fice, corner Main and 5th Streets, up stairs. 28t4
WHEELER Jfc BEXXETT,
REAL ESTATE and Tax Paying Agents. No
taries Public, Fire and Life Insurance Agents,
Plattsmouth, Nebraska.
TV. B.JEXKIXH.
ATTORNEY AT LAW, U. S. Claim Agent and
Public Auctioneer. Business promptly attend
ed to. Greenwood, Neb.
It K L.IVIXU8TOS,
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, tenders his pro
fessional services to the citizens of Cass county.
Residence southeast corner Sixth and Oak sts. ;
Oflice on Main street, two doors west of Sixtb,
Plattsmouth. Nebraska.
GEO. H. 8XITH,
ATTORNEY AT LA and Real Estate Bro
ker. Special attention given to Collections
and all matters affecting the title to real estate.
Office on 2d floor, over Post Office, Plattsmouth,
Nebraska. 40j t.
CHAN. II. TIIOHPHOX, H. .
HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN. Thirty years
practice has made the Dr. familiar with nearly
all diseases, and their cure. Office : Cor. 61 h &
Main Sts., over Johnson's Drug Store. 25tt
JOHN W HAIXEB
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, ana collector of
debts, collections made from one dollar to one
thousand dollars. Mortgages. Deeds, and oth
er Instruments drawn, and all county business
usually transacted before a Justice of the Peace.
Best of reference given if required.
Oflice on Main street. West of Conrt House.
40-yl JOHN W. HAINES.
DB. J. II. WATERMAS!, '
Physio Medical Practitioner.
LouUvtOe, Can Co., Jfeb.
CP Always at the office on Saturdays. 40yl
CLAPP & CBEEXiLATE,
ELMWOOD, - - NEBRASKA,
Dealers In
DryGoods & Groccrsies,
and all articles generally kept In a country
store. Farmers, call and examine before going
away from home to buy. 7tf.
PLATTSMOUTH MILLS.
PLATTSMOUTH, NEB.
C.HEISEL, - Proprietor.
Flour, Corn Heal, & Feed
Always on hand and for sale at lowest cash
prices. The highest prices paid for Wheat and
Corn. Particular attention given custom work.
'GRAND CENTRAL'
HOTEL,
Iargrest and finest Hotel be
tween Chicago and San
Francisco.
GEO. THRALL, - - Prop
OMAHA, NEB.
CHARLES WARREN,
TOXHOKIAL ARTIST,
Will give you a clean shave, or trim your hair in
tne
Latest Style !
OR GIVE YOU A
FIRST-CLASS SHAMPOO.
XKVT POOR TO VLATTK VALI.KT HOUSE,
snniS llaitsmoutn.'Keb.
AHEBICAX PRESIDENTS.
bt 8. W. C.
First Washington, Adams,
With Jefferson reckoned
Next Madison, Moore.
Then Adams the second.
Andrew Jackson came next,
Of New Orleans fame ;
TanBuren and Harrison,
And Tyler next eaniei
Thon Folic and then Taylor,
Then Filmore and Pieree,
Then Buchanan, then Lincoln,
With war's dreadful curse.
Then Johnson, of whom
There Is little to say.
And now Grant who presides
At the White House to-day.
The question is now.
In these uncertain days,
WhoTl be the next one,
Tllden or Hayes.
But you'll see my kind friends.
In a very few days.
Oar next President will be
Rutherford B. Hayes.
THE L10N AND THE SKUNK.
I met a Hon In my pad.
(Twas on a dreary autumn night,)
Who gave me the alternative
To either run or fight.
I dare not turn upon the track,
I dare not think to run away.
For fear the lion at my back
Would seize me as bis prey.
Bo summoning a fearless air.
Though all my soul was full of fright,
I said unto the forest king,
-I will not run, but fight."
We fought, and as the fatesldeereod,
I citiuered In the bloody fray ;
For soon the lion at my feet
A lifeless carcass lay.
A little skunk was standing by .
And noted what the lion spoke ;
And when be saw the lion die,
The lion's track he took.
He used the lion's very speech.
And stretching to his utmost height.
Tie gave me the alternative
To either run or fight.
I saw he was prepared to fling
Yile odors from his bushy tail.
And knew those odors very .soon
My nostrils would assail.
So summoning a huaible sir.
Though all my soul was free from fright,
I said unto the dirty brute,
'"I'll run, but will not fight." x
V ORAL :
As years begin to cool my blood,
I'd rather all would doubt my spunk
Than for a moment undertake
To battle with a skunk.
HEADLONG INTO THE BITER.
Tho Plunge Kade by a Train at the
Cominunipavr Depot.
New York rforld. Not. 12. t
At 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon
there was a large crowd of passengers
standing in Xew Jersey Central Rail
road depot at Communipaw for trains.
They were astonished to see a train of
nine cars coming into the depot at the
rate of 25 miles an hoar, and before
they could understand why the engi
neer was whistling down breaks it
dashed down the south track and went
through the freight office with a terri
ble crash; plunging into the river.
The engineer and fireman jumped from
the engine one on eacn siae oerore
it reach the freight office. The engi
neer was thrown with such violence
that he was picked up insensible;
the fireman escaped with minor inju
ries. The engine and tender carried
away the bumper at the end of the
track, and the frame work of the office
was not strong enough to stop its pro
gress, rne engine weni on io ine
outer side of the building, plunging
into the water in the dock used for
laying up the ferryboats, a ferryboat
which was in the dock, being forced
out of its position by the shock. The
engine and tender were submerged at
once in over twenty reet oi water.
The first car, which was a baggage and
smoking car in two compartments,
went over on top of them, turning on
one side. The water came up far
enough on it to cover the wheels, but
left one side out of the water. The
third car followed, the forward truck
going down on the smoking car and
the rear truck remaining on the dock,
caught by the wreck of the bulkhead.
The other car tore away the platforms
and the shock of the sudden stoppage
smashed the glass and threw the pass
engers forward with great violence.
The crowd in the depot ran to assist
those who were caught m the wreck.
Under the lead of ex-Corporation
Counsel A. K. Brown, of Jersey City,
they pushed a freight car afloat along
side cf the overturned car and drew
out eighteen men who were imprison
ed in the submerged car, breaking out
the window sashes of the car to get at
them. The passengers were soon col
lected, and it was found that there
was not a single life lost, Engineer
Feters being the only one seriously in
jured, though- a large number were
bruised and cut by broken glass and
splinters. The train was the Philadel
phia train due at the depot at 4:10 p.
bl, and was crowded with passengers.
The- engine Xo. 05, was one of the
fastest on the road, and it is thought
that the engineer tried to put on the
airbrakes as usual, just before entering
the depot, and finding that they would
not work, he blew the winsLle for the
brakemen to apply the ordinary brakes
but either too late to avert the acci
dent or he was misunderstood by the
train gang. Capt. TVinants, the Su
perintendent, was soon on the scene,
and rendered very material service.
What is a Car-Load.
Nominally a car-lcwid is 20.000 lbs.
It is also 70 barrels of salt, 70 of lime,
90 of flour, 60 of whiskey 200 sacks of
flour, 6 cords of soft wood, 18 to 20 head
ef cattle, 50 to 60 head of hogs, 80 to
100 head of sheep, y.OOO ft. of solid
lumber, 17,000 ft. of 'siding. 13,000 ft
of floring. 40,000 shingles H less hard
lumber, less green lumber, one-tenth
of joists, scantling, and all other large
timbers, 340 bushels of wheat, 400 of
corn, 670 of oats, 400 of harley, 360 of
flaxseed, 260 of .apples, 430 of Irish :o-
t;ito?s, 200 of swfet potatoes, 1,000 bu.
of bran. Boston Transcript.
A MAGAZINE NOYELTY.
Great will be the wailing among the
little folks this month, for St. Nicho
las for December, which has ordinari
ly been issued on the 20th, is to be held
back until the 25th ; but it is then to
be the Gn and Christmas Holiday
Number.
We have not had a peep even at its
pages, but Editor and Publishers prom
ised to do their very best, and that
means a great deal where St. Nicho
las is concerned.
They tell us, among other contribu
tions to this number, will be a paper
by Mr. Bryant, "The Boy of My Boy
hood," i. e the boys of the latter part
of the last century or the beginning of
this.
The number will have nearly one
hundred pages and over fifty pictures.
Prof. Proctor, the English astrono
mer, contributes a paper called "A
Clock in the Sky," illustrated by draw
ings showing how the tail of the Great
Bear points out the time of night.
Then there is the account of the
great "Horse Hotel." with very spirited
pictures ; an article by Lucy Larcom,
"The Poetry of Winter," besides lots of
Christmas stories, accounts of curious
Oriental Sports, and more good things
than we can find space to mention. -
JJesides all this, j. T. Trowbridge be
gins his new story for boys, "His Own
Master, in this Christmas Holiday
Number of St. Nicholas.
Need we say more? Could we say
more to interest the young folks?
THAT HATEFUL MUSTACHE.
Mr. and Mrs. Crim were at the festi
val the other evening, Mrs. Crim was
rodiant, but Mr.'Crim bore a faint ap
pearance of gloom, brightened some
what by the bareness of his upper lip.
We noticed this bareness at once, and
at the same time received a significant
glance from Mrs. Crim, which we read
ily understood. Several years ago Mrs.
Crim had come to us with a sore troub
le upon her heart a very sore trouble
indeed, for one so young and but short
ly married, Mrs. Crim's trouble was
Mr. Crim' mustache. It was when
they first bgan to "keep company"
that his mustache started. Crim, like
all young men. felt that his whole fu
ture depended on the growth of the
hair, and despite her pleading to cut it
off, he refused. He did not doubt she
was in earnest, but he Knew better
than she that should his lip be shaved,
her leve must necessarily die out. Love
will live longer on one mustache than
on all other things combined. After
they were married she again renewed
her entreaties, but it was without avail.
Crim loved his wife, and although he
now held her by a legal tie, yet he
wanted to keep her heart all to himself.
So she had to come to us with her
trouble and wanted to know what to
do.
"But a mustache is generally consid
ered an ornament," we said.
"So is an ear-ring," said she, or a pair
of vases, but who wants them jammed
into their mouth or against their nose
every time they are kissed. I wouldn't
mind his mustache if he woro it on his
heel, but no married man has got a
rignt to wear a spur under bis nose.
She said this with considerable feeling.
"But we have always heard that a
mustache was an element in kissing to
be desired rather than avoided by your
sex."
"I don't know anything about that.
but I do know that in this case it is a
nuisance. Why, it's just like kissing a
second-hand currycomb to kiss John.
A paper of pins is as a door-knob to
that mustache of his." And Mrs. Crim
cried softly.
we saw how it was. Mr. Crim in
his ambition to raise a mustache had
shaved early and often, and got a crop
that must prove agonizing to - a sensi
tive nature. Still we could not pre
sent a remedy, and the unfortunate la
dy took her departure, well nigh crush
ed beneath her load.
And now on this night or the festi
val John's lip was bare and Mrs. Crim
was radiant. We were much gratified,
and somewhat surprised, and consider-
bly curious. Pretty soon Mrs. Crim
found her way to us.
"Am t you astonished r she asked.
"We are visibly affected," we said.
"but how did it come about?"
She told us. There were several "You
must know,"and much gasping, and
many nods, and expressive glances in
the narrative, but simplified down it
was just this. She thought and thought
for days with all her might on the sub
ject, Pleadings, expostulations, and
even threats effected nothing. Some
plan must be devised which should
bring him to his senses, or force him
to cut off the hateful thing without his
senses. One whole month she wrestled
with this problem before receiving
light. The plan she hit upon was sim
ple but effective. She resolved to take
to bed with her at night a pair of scis
sors, and when her husband fell asleep
she would gore that mustache so it
would have to be taken off, or he be
come a laughing stock of the populace
"But that was seven years ago. Did
yon give up the idea until now?" we
asked.
"Oh, no, I never gave it up," said she,
flushing slightly. Then noticing our
puzzled expressions, she added desper
ately, "I I kept getting asleep first."
"Oh!" we ejaculated.
"Yes, she continued with a sigh, "I
could'nt help it. Every night I took
tho scissors to bed with me, and every
night I lay as still as a mouse for him
to go to sleep, and next thingTd know.
it was morning, and the scissors were
under the pillow, and the mustache un
der his nose. But last night he had a
bad cold, and went to bed early, and
mother gave him a big bowl of hop tea,
and when I went to bed he was asleep.
And then," said she. with a burst of
enthusiasm, "I fixed him. He was a
spectacle, you can bet, this morning,
and pretty mad, too ; but he shaved,
and now a kiss is something like liv
lng."
"Don'd sav noddines to me." said an
indignant German at a caucus. "I
wote for the men v:t 1 got a righsl to
lie was not molested again.
She Wanted to Adopt Them.
A remarkable case of brute affection
came to our notice last Saturday. On
Tuesday E. Mack took six young pup
pies away from their mother, his noted
Queen, and during the entire day she
whined and moaned piteously in her
bereavement : but she soon discovered
a neat of kittens, and immediately car
ried them away to her own stall in the
stable, and made a comfortable nest for
them in the hay. Queen became very
devoted to her little wards,and watched
them tenderly for several days, w hile
tue mother of the kittens hung around
and endeavored to rescue them.
On Saturday pussy had. by exercis
iag great prudence, succeeded in rescu
ing and carrying off to a safe hiding
place three of the kittens, and Queen
was again feeling bad at the loss of
her family ; but her grief apperantly
knew no bounds when the holster took
the fourth and only remaining kitten
and returned it to its own mothei.
She whined and capered about, and
would look first into the barn loft
where the kitten had been taken, and
then beseechingly to the holster. Eu
gene finally brought the kitten back
again, and Queen was as happy as dogs
usually become; she fairly danced for
joy and as soon as the kitten was set
down she took it tenderly between her
jaws and carried it back to the nest in
the stall where she was when we left
her, with the cat skirmishing around
and waiting for another opportunity
to rescue her offspring. Express.
The following are so true and so in
teresting we clip them from the Be
atrice Express:
Mr. Editor: I am a woman, and
my husband has not been at home a
single night since election. He says he
has been up every night waiting for
election returns. Do you think he
tells me the truth? Fannie B.
Ans. Yours is a peculiar case, but
we cannot tell a lie. Your husband
has been "out with the boys," and we
advise you to watch him.
Mr. Editor: What wa3 the real
cause of Limber Jim's withdrawal ?
J. K. L.
Ans. If you refer to Mr. Doom, we
will simply say that we give it up. It
is a conundrum, a knotty problem ; but
it is supposed by some that his with
drawal was for the preservation of
good morals and the good of the county
generally. He says so himself, in fact,
and as he knows how it is himself, we
do not gainsay it.
Mr Editor: I am engaged to mar
ry a man who was a republican two
weeks ago, but when he. heard Tilden
was elected changed his mind and be
came a democrat. If you was a wo
man, and in my place, would you mar
ry him. Susie B.
Ans. That is a hard question to an
swer, but it would depend pretty much
on whether we would or not. At any
rate he is fickle, and if you marry him
he will probably be flirting with the
girls again a3 soon as the honeymoon
is over.
Mr. Editor: Can you tell me what
it costs a man to make the canvass for
an office in Gage county? B D.
Ans. No, not exactly ; but we have
been told that it costs more or less,
often more than the income from the
office ; but we never had an office, nevei
made a canvass, and consequently are
not prepared to commit ourselves
squarely. The glory that comes with
victory is however, often considered as
amounting to more than the income.
.Down in the southern part of Vir
ginia flourishes a breed of semi-wild
hogs, called in the country vernacular
wind splitters," or "razorbacks. They
greatly resemble a greyhound in shape
and in speed would successfully com
pete with one. At one of the county
fairs, several years ago, an enterpris
ing Pennsylvanian placed on exhibi
tion a pen of sleek fat Berkshires,
which presented a marked contrast to
the leaner native specimens by which
they were surrounded. Their owner
one day encountered one of his com
petitors in swine culture, and ventured
a comparison between his own and the
stilted occupants of t'ae neighboring
pens. "Wa'al, stranger," replied the
ruralist," "they may be right smart for
you uns, but down this yar county you
couldn't give 'em 'way."
"Why not?" askod the astonished
Pennsylvanian.
"Why, ye see, stranger, down yar a
hog that can't outrun a nigger ain't
wuth a cuss."
This anecdote was told by Senator
Withers, of Virginia, in a stump
speech delivered in Chesterfield county.
When he descended from the platform
he was accosted by a venerable darky.
who had been an attentive listner.with
the qury: "I say, Mars Withers, whar
can I git some dem hogs. Fo' God, dey's
jess de breed for dis yar kentry. liar
pers Drawer.
The Tribune says "the Democratic
propositions for preventing the count
of the votes are of a most unblushing
character." We don't like this at all.
Any honest, square "proposition" will
"blush," as everybody knows. And yet
an unblushing proposition may be red
olent, but until it is read. We should
think the color of a democratic prop
osition for preventing a count of the
votes would be sky-blue, the color that
the devil painted his tail, in order to
have it neat but not gaudy. The color
of a republican accepting such a prop
osition would, without controversy, be
green. The color of a democrat when
his proposition is refused would be
purple. While after all the proposi
tions, the vote will be counted and the
result declared, by men "black in the
face." These are the true color lines
at last advices. The "white line" is
wiped out. Post.
The unusual spectacle of a flock of
quails on Boston Common was witness
ed the other day. Special dispatches
from Faneml hall say the birds all
wore eye-glasses and whistled in ongi
nal Greek, but the eye-glass part of the
storv is denied bv the Associated I Jress
report. It isn't safe to believe either
side until tlie ointal count is in.
The Presidential Game.
From the Ottumwa (Iowa? Courier
It is a game of seven up, in whicii
Tilden has one td gd and Hayes four.
If Hayes should make1 high, low, jack
and the game, it gives four and puts
him out. If Tilden, however, should
turn up jack, which is an old and
denlocratie trick, he goes out and wins
the game,
Thomas Jefferson, that wise and far
seeing statesman, remarked, "If our
country is to be saved, it must be done
by the proper training of children to
love Christ;" and he added, "what tk
responsibility rtsts upon the Sabbath
schools."
" I don't see how you can have been
working all day like a horse," exclaim
ed the wife of a lawer, her husband
having declared that he bad been thus
working. "Well my dear," he replied
'I've been drawing a conveyance all day
anyhow.
No body has read the Vanderbilt
health bulletins for ten days, and the
old Commodore is so mad that he swears
KnniAnefAiialtf and cinlnalv nYinct
up the expressions from those by whom
he is surrounded,' that he will die
some time in the night, and not let a
soul know a word about it until he has
been dead a week.
It costs about three million dollars
to elect A president of these United
States. Now, why couldn't we get
along without a president for a little
while, and pay off the national debt or
buy some new clothes or something?
Seems to us that is a big pile to pay
for presidents when the raw material
is so abundant and willing.
One of our teachers in Sundav school .
ws "stumped" badly Sunday afternoon
during the services of the hour. Ho
was teaching the infant olass, and, af
ter explaining the lesson as well as he
knew how, he threw open the question
box, figuratively speaking, and told the
children they might ask him any ques
tion that suggested themselves. He
was gratified by a seven-year-old girl,
who immediately piped out: "Who's
elected ?" He could't tell.
Railroad construction bids fair td be
quite active in Nebraska the comirg
season. Work is now in progress on
the Omaha & Republican Valley road,
and trains will be running to Wahoo
from Omaha before Christmas. The
proposition of constructing a railroad
to the Black Hills, either from Omaha
via the Elkhorn Valley, or from some
point on the Union Pacific road, is also
under consideration, and the prospects'
are that the northwest will develop
rapidly within the next five years. A
three foot six inch narrow gauge has
been commenced, called the Covington,
Colnmbus & Black Hills road, and ovf
thirty miles has been completed tho
present seson. This line extends from
a point opposite Sioux City, in a rather
circuitous route to the southwest and
northwest, and is intended ultimately
to be pushed to the Black Hills county
and probably to Montana. 0;nz&a lie
pabliean.
Gentleness with cows.
Five ner cent, and rtrrhn inn enrt
be added to the amount of milk obtain
ed from the cows of the country, if
the following rules are inexorably fol
lowed: 1. Never hurrv cows, in driT-
ing to and from pasture. 2. Milk as
nearly at equal intervals as posible.
Half-past five in the morning and six
at night are a verv crood hour. 3. Ita
especially tender with the cow at milk
mg times. 4. vn en seated, draw the
milk as rapidly as posible, being cer
tain alwars to cet all. 5. Naver tnlk
or think of anything beside what yoil
are aomg wnen milking. 6. (Jliei
some caress and always a soothing
word when you approach a cow and
when vou leave her. The better she
loves you, the more free and complete
win do ner aDandon as vou Bit at her
side. Exchange.
SPIRITS OF AMMONIA.
"A Farmer's Wffe" writes an eastern
journal as follows: There is no toll
ing what a thing will do till vou try it.
I know ammnia. diluted in water,
could restore rusty silks and clean coat
collars, but when I got a grease spot on
the carpet, I. tried a half dozen other
things before I thought of that, and
that is just what did the work effectu
ally. I put a teaspoon fal into about a
teacupful of hot water, took a cloth
and wet the spot thoroughly, just rub
bing it slightly, and the ugly spot was
gone. It is splendid for cleaning your
silver; it makes things as bright as new
without any expenditure of strength;
and for looking-glasses and windows
it is best wf all ; and one day when I
was tired and my dish cloths looked
rather gray, I turned a few drops of
ammonia into the water and rubbed
them out. and I found it acted like a
charm, and 1 shall be sure to do so
again Bomeday. I suppose housewives
have a perfect right to experiment and
see what results they can produce; and
if they are not on as large a scale as the
farmers try, they are just as in-portant
to us, and may make our work lighter
and brighter too. Now, I do not be
lieve in luxuriating in a good thing all
alone, and I hope all the housekeepers
will send and get a ten cent bottle of
spirits of ammonia and commence a
series of chemical experiments and seo
what they can accomplish with it.
Take the boys jackets, the girls dres
es, and when you have eleaned every
thing else, put a few drops in some
soft water and wash the little folks'
heads and report progress.
An English lady who had forgotten
her prayer-book sent her little boj to
the church vestibule, where they kept
a supply for such contingencies. In a
minute the wee chap returned with a
very red face but without the book.
"Why did you come back without it,
dear? Perhaps they were all gone?".
"Oh no, mamma dear, there were plen
ty, but they were all common prayer
books, and I did'nt like to bring yoit a
common prayer-look, mamma dear''
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