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THE tiEEALD: KA . ERA B. PUBLISHED EVZUY THLKSDAY A UVCUT191XU RATE. PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA PACK. 1 sqr.. . 3qrs.. Ssqri . 14 col.. H ol.. 1 col . . . THE HJii KALI). 1T. 2w. S w. 1 rn. 1 nx 6 ttx. $100 52-0 $,'.o S5 00 8810 I 50 i 0-1 2 76 8 ift 1 00 1 2 00 273 4 00 4 7 $uv' 1300 600 8 00 1000 1300 20 00 28 00 8 00 1200 16 00 1S0B 24 00 40 00 1500 IB 00 21 OO KftOO 40 00 BO 00 titot 60 0O IN 04 OFFICE: Ot Vina St.. One Block North of Main, Corner of Fifth Street. txTAM Advertising hill dut quarterly. tfT-Tmnslent adrertlsemenU miut be fur In advance. LiItKHT CIRCn.ATIOX OP AW JNO. A. MACMURPHY, Editor.) " PERSEVERANCE CONQUERS." (TERMS : $2.00 a Year. Terms, in Advance: One copy, one year 2 00 On-copy, six months j"oo One copy, three months. .'". 50 Extra roplew rf the Until. d for 1 ly Yotitip. Pontoffleo news leiot, arxl O. F.J j. r. VOLUME XIV. PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY APRIL 4, 1878. J NUMBER John suu,coruer oi jhjuu iuiu r uiu au vris. FIRST National Bank OF PLATTSMOUTH, NEBKASKA, SUCCESSOR TO TOOTLK, UAW'A Jt CLABK J.-mx Fitzg era li President. K. i. Dovey Vice President. A. . McLacohux Cas'iT. Jonh O'Kol'RitK Assistant Cashier. This Bank Is now open for business at their new room, corner Main and Sixth streets, and is prepared to transact a general BANKING BUSINESS. S4ocs, Bondi, Gold, Government and Local Securities BOUGHT AND SOLI). Ihpijita Received and Interest Allow ed on Time Certificates. Available in anv part of the United States and In all the Principal Towns and Cities of Europe. AGCXTS FOIt TIIK CELEBRATED Ikman Like and Allan Line OF KTKAJlEltS. Tf nson wishing to bring out their friends from Europe can PCBCIIA9E TICKETS FROM U8 Thronch t I' I a t t m o u t li . to . a S! o "-- o C o o rt CO d a CQ Cv3 S O -a cp 09 o H 2; o w fcJO - c 2 H 2 is O CQ a? o o o J O g R Excelsior Barber Shop. J. C. BOONE, Slain iitret, opposite Xa'tnrfers House. KAiu-CTJTTHsra, S H A V I N t; AMI S H A M P O O 1 N (1 F.-n c!al attention given to fVTTiyn nim.lWETt'S A.XD LA DIAS If MR. 'A'.!. AXD SIT. ijooxi:. (IKNTS, Alnl g'l :l inline ill a l-io il iti k 1 1 i; oh 1'M.ACi: MILLIARD HALL iM .in .Sl..cat i-f Mi-t Nat. Bank.) I'l.OTsiKtnH, - - - N,I mv mar 1 suri i im w ith tiik J'1T WINT-O, I.l;l'il'!, CI" A IIS. .yi iKiat, rr., ETC. 'IF O TJ 3ST ID IR- jT MACHINE SHOPS! rUTfSMOHU. N Eli., Rcpailtr of Sttatil Eh'jineS. Jioil-HS, Sain mid Grist Jlilh t;AN A.M HTF.AM ITTTlKiH, Wl-.-.ught Iron Pipe. Force r-nd Lift Pipes Sjam Gauges. s.tfetv-Vaive ( Inn rpoi s. and all kinds of Brass Engine i ittniK. re)aired on short imlice. K A R M MACHINE It 'T Ips.:rcd on Short Notice. "YOUNG!" T II E li U T C II E R, (an ahriys le found at llatt's Old Stand, Ready to sll the lest Meats. YOUNG biivs fre!h fat cattle, sheep, hoe xc. direct from the farmers every day, and his me.ns are aly good. HAM K. FISH. .l.VP FOWL. IS SEASON syL SAGE BROTHERS, lealers in S T O "V" IE S , tre., etc., etc. Onw Ioor East of the Post-Office, riattsinouth. Nebraska. Practical Workers in SHEET IRON, ZINC, TIN, li HA ZIER Y, dc, tf-c. Large a-ssortineut of Hard anrt Soft COAL STOYE3, Wood and Coal Stoves for HEATING OR COOKING, Always on Hand. Every vanetv of Tin. Sheet Iron, and Zinc "Work, kept in Stock. MAKING AND REPAIRING, Done on Short Notice. tarEVLIlYTBIXQ WARRANTED t J PRICES row IOWX. jtf SAGE BROS. PROFESSIONAL CARDS NAM. 31. CIIAI'.MA.V, ATTORNEY AT LAW, And Solicitor, in Chancery. Office in Fitzger aid Block. 191 ri.ATTSM.OUTH. NEB. I. II. 1VIIEKLER A 0. LVW OFFICE. Ueal Estate, Fire and Lifeln- surance Aeeuts. I'lattsniontn, ebnLska. Col lectors, tax-payen. Have a complete abstract of tides, nuy ana sell real estate, negotiate loans, ice. l&yi JAMF.S K. MOKKIHO.V. ATTOKNEY AT LAW. W ill practice In Cass and ailjomtng Counties ; gives special attention to collections and abstraclsof title. Office with Oeo. S. Smith, Fitzgerald Block, Plattinouth, Nebraska. i(y UEO. H. HMITII. ATTORNEY AT LAV and Keal Estate Bro ker. Special attention given to Collections and all matters affecting the title to real estate. Office on M floor, over Post Office. Flattsmouth, Nebraska. " i JOIIX AV IIAIM.H JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, ana collector of debts, collections made from one dollar to one thousand dollars. Mortgages. I eels, and oth er instruments drawn, and all county business usually transacted before a Justice oitne Peace, Best of reference piven if required. Office ou Main street. West of Court House. 40-yl JOHN W. HAINES. D. II. WHEELER, K. D. 8TO" E, WHEELER & STONE, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, I'lat tsniouth XebritMka. ic it i,n ix;sTOX, PHTSICTAX & SUUGEON. tenders his pro fessional services to the citizens of Cass county. Residence southeast comer Sixth and Oak sts. ; Office on Main street, two doors west of Sixth, Plattsiuouth. Nebraska. UK. J. M. WATEKIIAS, Physio Medical Practitioner. Ijntixrille, Cas Co., -Vch. tfiAlways at the office on Saturdays. 40yl Ilt. AT. II. HCIIIL.UU.N'KCIIT. P11ACTISINO PHYSICIAN, will attend calls at all hours, nighl or day. Pl;ittinotilh. Ne braska. 421y JOMKI'II II. II ALL. M. I. PHYSICIAN & SUIt" EON. will attend all calls, day or ninlit. Office with K. II. Living ston. Ma'in St., one door above Black & Ituff ner's. f.lly IHt.Ci n.IIII.IKItKAM, PRACTICING PHYSICIAN, Louisville. Neb, Calls promptly attended to. Mly SAUNDERS HOUSE. J.fS.GREUOUY, - - - Proprietor. Locution Central, flood Sample Room.. Every attention paid to guests. 43n3 Pl.ATTSMOfTH, - - - - - Neb. T0M3IERCIAL HOTEL, LINCOLN. NELL, J. J. IJIHOFF, - - - Proprietor. The best known and most popular landlord in the Stale. Always stop at the Commercial. "GRAND CENTRAL" HOTEL. LARGEST AM) FINEST HOTEL BETWEEN CHICAGO AND SAN FRANCESCO. iino. THRALL, - - Prop. OMAHA. NEIL E. PARMELE, SALE, FEED A LIVERY STABLE. On Main street nearly oppobltc the Court llitUHf, I'laltsinout li. Nth. fiorsES foR Sale. Th buying and selling of good horses made the specialty of the business. New Horses & Carriages, and gcMitlu horses, for Ladles to drive ars kept at this Stable. A No a carry all. which runs to the depot, and will carry passengers from any place ill town on Call. FARMERS CALL AND EA'AMINE MY STOCK FOR SALE. 8vl E. PARMELE. O. K. SALOON. 1 keep constantly on hand REST MILWAUKEE DEER. hich cau be had at no other PLAt'K IV THE CITV. Also the best of trixr.s. LiQiujits, axd cigaus. I'UHE APPLE BOILED CIDER. Jioiltd down from 3 gallons to 1 FOR SALE At Ed. Ilosenbaum's by the glass or gallon. STiinc, Ed. Kosenbxum. CM Z. Z. 34. T DICK STREIGHT'S LI V FRY, FEED AND SALE STA BLES. Corner Cth and Pearl Sts. UOI'-SeS ItOAKDED BY TIIK UA1, WEEK, OR MOTU. HORSES BOUGHT. SOX, ID OTZ TTJEJD. For a Fair CoinmLssion. TEAMS AT ALL HOIRS. Paiticular attention paid to Driving and Training TROITI.VG STOCK. Al - A hearse furnished when called for. A Ureat ICedurtion in Irice or GUNS, REVOLVEPvS, &c. Prices reduceil from 20 to 30 per cent. Write for Illustrated Catalogue, with reduced prices for 1877. Address, GREAT WESTERN GUN WORKS, 91 Smithlield St.. Pittsburgh. Ta. lsyt H. A. WATERMAN & SON, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in riNE LUMBER. LATH. SHINGLES. SASH, DOORS, BLINDS, fJTC- ETC ETC. Maiu street. Corner of Fifth, PLATTSM0U1II, XEB. still Better Ratea tor Lumber. OR Chills, Shakes, FEVER AM AGIE. TAHBOBO, N. C, 1878. Dk. II. R. STKVKJfS : Dear Sir, I feel vet y grateful for what your valuable meuicine. egetine, has done in my iamiiy. i wisn to express my tnaiiKS Dy lniorm ing you of the wonderful cure of my son : also, to let you know that Veiretine is the best medi cine I ever saw for Chill. Sltakm, Fever and Apue. My son was sick with measles In 1873, which left him with Hiii-Joint disease. My son suffered a great deal of pain, all of the time: the pain was o (treat he did nothing but cry The doctors did not help him a particle, he could not lift bin foot from the floor, he could not move without crutches. I read vour adver tisement in the "Louisville Courier-Journal," that y egetine was a great Rlood Pui iner and blood tood. 1 tried one bottle, which was a great benefit. He kept on with the medicine, gradually gaining, lie has taken eighteen bot tles in all, and he is completely restored to health, walks without crutches or cane. He is twenty years of age. I have a younger son. fif teen years of age, who is subject to CMU. . " - " V, T 1 . 11, .1 .1.. LWIIIIHg VF.., v,w .. V- F .... takas a dose of Vegetine and that is the last of the Chill, vegetiue leaves no bad effect upon the syBtem like most of the medicines recom mended for Chill. I cheerfully recommend Vegetine for such complaints. I tbiuk it is the greatest medicine in the world. Respcctf nlly. M RS. J. W. LLOYD, Veoktink. AVhen the blood becomes life less and stagnant, either from the change of weather or of climate, want of exercise, irregu lardiet.or from any other cauxe. the Vki.k tixk will renew the blood, carry off the putrid humors, cleanse the stomach, regulate the bow els, and impart a tone of vigor to the whole oouy. VEGETINE FOR DYSPEPSIA, XERTOISXESS, And General Debility. Mehnardstox, Mass., 1878. We, the undersigned, having used Vegetine, take pleasure in recommending it to all those troubled with Humort of any kind, Dinepia, .Ytrtvutcs or (frneral Debility, it beimr the Oreat Blood Purifier. Sold by li. L. Crowell & Tons, who sell more of it than all other patent medicine put together. .mks. I., r . i-r.Kii.s. MKS. H. W. SCOTT. JOSEPHUS SLATE. Vegktine is the great health restorer com posed exclusively of bark., roots and herbs. It 1. very pleasant to take ; every child likes it. VEGETINE FOIi NERVOUS HEADACHE And Ellicunintf sin. ClN.TNJiATI. O.. April 0. 1877. II. K. SXEVKVS, Ebtl. : Dear Sir, I have used your Vegetine for AYrrotm IlM'Inchc. and also for Wieumutixm. and have found entire relief from both, and take great pleasure in recommending it to all who may no unewise aiuicteu. c iir.u a. nuuii, 108 Mill St.,tinn. Vkuktink has restored thousands to health who tiava been long and painful sutferers. VEGETDTE Druggists Test 1 moil j. Mr. H. U. Stkvfns : Dear Sir. We have been Rolling vour remedy. t hi? cg'-tine. for about three years, and take iileasuie in recommending it f our customers. and in no instance where a blood purifier would reach the case, has It ever failed to effect a cure to our knowledge. It certainly is the tie plut ultra of renovator. Ecspectlully. K. M. SHEPHEKI), & CO., DruffffW Mt. Vernon, 111. In acknowledged bv all clase of people to be the best and most reliable blood purifier In the woria. VEGETINZ Prepared by II. It. STET E.S, Iloston, 31ass. YeEetine is Sold liy all Dnmists. ROBERT DONNELLY'S AND BLACKSMITH SHOP. Wajon, Rwjgy, Macliine and Plow re pairing, and general jobling. I am now prepared to do all kinds of repairing of farm and other machinery, as there is a good lathe in my shop. PETER HA (JEN, The old Reliable Wagon Maker has taken charge of the wagon shop. He Is well known as a NO. 1 WORKMAN. Xew M'agous and Unsafe made to Order. SATISFACTION GL'AKANTEED. Shop on Sixth street. ODposite Streight's Stable U.1T BSai hews HARDWARE STORE, In Plattsnioitth, Neb., on Fourth St., about the MIDDLE OF THE BLOCK, you will find : Corn Planters, (Iiaml &. Iiorse) Stirring Plows, Sulky Plows, Cultivators, and all kinds of Farm Implements and Shelf Hardware, Tin Ware, &c, &c. ALSO, Hungarian and Millet. Seed for Sale 31 in PLATTSMOUTH MILLS. PLATTSMOl'TH, NEB. C. Ill: I Si: I., - Proprietor. Flour, Com Meal tt Feed Always on hand and for sale at lowest cash prices. The highest prices paid for Wheat and Corn. Particular attention given custom work. STKE1G1IT & MILIEU, Harness Manufacturers, SADDLES BRIDLES, COLLARS. and all kinds of harness stock, constantly on hand. FRUIT, CONFECTIONEY, GKOCEKY STOKE, NUTS, CANDIES, TEAS ICOFFEES, sue; a us. TOBACCOES, FLOCK, e. Remember th place opposite E.G. Dcyey's on Lowr Mfttn Street. 21-1? STREIGHT fc MILLER. THE Illtill TIDS. by jxAsr mamucrr. The old mayor climbed the belfry i l ne ringers ran by two, uy tnrM ; Pull, If ye never pulled before. Good ringers ; pull your best," quotk-fefc "Play upjio. playnppe.O lioton lolll Plv all your change's, nil your sweila, Play uppe 'The Brides of Emlerby T m I wit and spun within the doore : My thread brake off. I raised mroslUI The level sun, like ruddy ore. Lay sinking In the barren skies ; And dark against day's golden deatil She moved where Lindls wnnderetb, My Sonne's fuiro wife, Elizabeth. " Cusha 1 Cusba I Cusha I" cnlllna; Ere the enrly dews were fallinf, Farre away I heard her song. Where the reedy Limits floweth, Flowet h. Howet h ; From the meals when; melick gTOWWt. Faintly came her mil king-song. "Cushnl Cusha! Cusha 1" calling, "For the dews will soone be falling; Leave your meadow grasses mellow. Mellow mellow ; Quit your cowslips, cowslips yellow t Come uppe, Whitcfoot; come uppe.IJgBtffootl Quit the stalks of parsley hollow. Hollow, hollow ; Ome uppe. Jetty, rise and follow, From the clovers lift your head ; Come uppe. Whitcfoot; oome uppo.IJffhtiootl Come uppe. Jetty, rise and follow. Jetty, to the milking shed." Alle fresh the level pasture lay. And not a shadow mote be S'-ene, Save where, full fyve good miles awar. The steepl towered from out the green And lo 1 the great bell farr and wide Was beard in all the country-eide. That Saturday at eveutido. I looked without, and lo I my onne Came riding downe with might and main ; He raised a shout us he drew on. Till ull the welkin rung again, "Eflaabeth I Eliza both 1" (A sweeter woman ne'er drew breath Than my Sonne's wife, Elizabeth.) "The oldo sea-wall (lie cried) is downe ; The rising tide comes on npaco. And boat adrift in yonder towne Go Siiidii.' uono the marke -Dlace. ne shook as one that looks on death ; "God save vou, mother 1" straight ho aalth ; " Where la my wife, Elizabeth t" " Good sonne, where Lindls winds awit. With hi. r two 1 minis I marked her lomj; And ere yon bells lxganno to piay. Afar i heard her milk ing-song." He looked across the grassv lea. To right, to Ictt, " Ho, Enderby r They ranff "The Brld.s of Enderby I With thxt ho cricl and beat his breast ? For lo 1 along the river's bod A mighty eygre reari-d his cnst. And uppe the Li dis raging sped. It swept with thunderous nc ises loud, Shaped like a curling suow-whlte cloud, Or like a domon in a shroud. So farre, so fast the eygre drare, Tho heart hud hardly time to boat Before a shallow, set thing wave Sobbed in the gr.:wes lit our feet t The foet had hardly time to U e Before it brake against tne knee And ull tho world wa . 1u the sen. Upon theroofe we sate that niht. The iviise of b-l.s went s woi:pinj by I I marked the lofty beac m-lighl Stream from th-c!:iu-i-h-tov,or, red and high, A lurid mark and dread to ioj ; And awesome bells thuy were to raoe, That in tho dark rang " E.id ji by." They rang the sailor lads V uido From roofe to ro.fe hii feHr'ess rowed ; And I my Sonne was at u;y yide. And yet lho ruddy beacon gl wed ; And yet he moaned Iveneath hi breath, 1 0. conn- in life, or -ome in d-.Mth 1 O, lost I my love, Elizabeth 1" And didst thou visit him no more? Thou didst, thou didst, my daughter dearo ; The waters laid thee at hisdoort;. Ere yet the early d.i wu was clear. Thy prt tty bairns in f:ut embrace, Tlie lifted sun shone on thy face. Downe drifted to thy dw ei.ing-plnce. That flow strewed recks about tho grass, Thnt ebbo swept out the liocks to sea ; A fatal oblio mid How, al.is 1 To many more t hii myue and me : But each will mourn . is own ( he salt h). And sweeter womnn ne'er drvw breath Than my sonue'it wife, Elizabeth. 1 shall never hear her more lit,- th irrpdv T.lmlta hrrn. Cushti 1 Cusha I Cusha '." calling'. Ere the early dews bo falling; I shall never hear lu r song, 'Cusha 1 Cusha 1" nil aloiir Where the sunny LI nils lloweth, Gotth, tlowcth : From the meads where melick groweth. Where the wat r, wiudiiig down. Onward tlowcth to the town. I shall norer see her more Where the reeds and rushes quiver. Shiver, quiver ; Stand beside the sobbing river, Sobhimr, throbbing, in ts f i lliuf To the sandy, lonesome rhore. Tickled iu a Boiling Spring. Tom Collette is a miner, teamster, coal burner, or anything else that is necessary, when lie finds that his pock et is growing empty and his larder lean. Tom, with two friends, Joe and Jake, was making a painful journey from Pine Grove, in Esmeralda county, to Eastern Nevada. They camped one afternoon by some hot springs, near Walker Lake, and discovering a hole half full of cold water, near one of the hottest springs, turned the hot water, as it flowed out of the spring, into the hole, until the hot and cold water blending made exactly the right tem perature for a bath. Then they plung ed in and enjoyed the delicious water as only those can who have traveled over the dusky alkali roads for sever al days. Y hen they had eaten their supper and lighted their pipes, the theme of their conversation for a long time while they smoked was their bath and the wonderful refreshment it had brought them. They spread their blankets on a grassy spot behind some willows, a fev yards away from the springs, and fell asleep. Tom was up with the dawn. The memory of the bath was fresh in his mind, and so he bounded from his blankets, and, with a skip and a jump plunged into the clear water and sank to Lis neck. Then came a howl of an guish, and he sprang upon the bank witli all the agility of a wild cat. Iu the meantime his fair skin had chang ed to the color of a pickled lobster. The hot water had been running all night; all the cold water had been neutralized hours before the dawn, and now h& water in the hole was almost of the same temperature as the water in the boiling spring from which it flowed. Tom was in a terrible state. He says: -1 thought I was pickled." Rut he did rot hesitate as to the course he should pursue. With infinite care he drew on his pants and boots. Forcing back tears of anguish, he managed to walk back to camp. Though it wrung his heart, he put on his old time frank smile as he neared the rendezvous, for Jake was just then sitting up in his blankets, gaping and stretching. Seeing Tom approach. Jake asked him where he had been. Tom replied that the recol lection of the magnificent bath of the previous evening was so vivid in his memory that he could not think of breaking camp without repeating it, and added : "It's just lovely, Jake." Jake did not wait to hear more, but sprang from his bed and rushed away toward the spring. As swiftly as Tom could he followed, and from behind the willows kept covert watch. He saw Jake throw off his few clothes, spring into the water, heard a yell of anguish, and then saw him with won derful haste emerge and spring upon the bank, and vainly try, by swift ap plications of bis hands to different points of his body, to arrest the intol erable pain, swearing and crying all the time. At last Jake managed 4o get into his clothes and started for camp. Meet ing Tom. he beean with fierce invec tive to upbraid him for his deception. Rut Tom cut him short in an instant. "Hush up," said he, "would you bawl like a calf and cive us away, when I want to cook that other son of a gun up in the camp? Soothed by this Jake grew quiet, and both leisurely proceeded to camp. Iiy this time Joe had commenced to rouse up, and, seeing the others approach, asked them where they had been. Tom answered cheerfully, and was holding his pantaloons away from his body in the rear at the time: "Do you think we could break camp without one more magnificent swim ? Not much." At this, Joe, getting up cried: "Not much, you bet!" and dashed away to ward the spring. As he disappeared behind the wil lows, Tom sprang for his pistol, and said to Jake: "Get your gun, quick; it will mean business when Joe comes back." In a few seconds Joe did come back. He was crying and cursing furiously, and never stopped until he caught up his pistol. "Drop it," said Tom, "I have a dead bead on you and so has Jake. Besides, I took all the caps off your gun." The difficulty was finally adjusted; but the trio took their breakfast stand ing that morning, anu, to spare tne mules, they did not ride much for succeding three days. the Saved by Ills Children. From the Youth's Companion. 1 Rev. Theodore Cuyler tells the story of a physician who escaped ruin by the mimicking of his children. He be gan his prefessional life with the brightest prospects, and being thor oughly educated and skillful, soon won a large and fashionable practice. His danger was in the baneful custom of social wine-drinking in fashionable gatherings and at aristocratic dinners. The young physician was witty, agree able, and a welcome guest everywhere. The rich petted him. At their tables lie found the social glass. He drank. His appetite was aroused. It grew strong; soon he could not control it. He neglected business, sank lower and lower, losing patrons and friends, until he became a staggering drunkard. His wife anl children wanted the necessa ries of life. Close before them and him waited the rum-pauper's inevita ble fate. One Sunday, when, half sobered af ter a night of excess, he was likely to re main awhile at home, his wife went to church, and left him with his two little boys. While the children play ed about the room he lay upon a lounge and sank into a stupid sleep. Pres ently their noise awoke and angered him, but on opening his eyes he saw what struck him dumb. His little six year old son was staggering across the floor, and tumbling down, in exact imi tation of an intoxicated man. The other boy, older tiian he, laughed with df-light at hi performances. "That's justjlike papa, let's both play drunk!" he cried, and then joined his brother in the sport. How the agony of conscience awoke in that father's breast! Had he lived to become such an in famous pattern to those innoceiit little ones? When next the wretched father left his house it was not to go to the dram shop. He went forth to suffer his own self accusings and think of his own sadly needed cure. In misery he wandered through the fields. The sight he had seen had exposed him to himself, smiting him with ceaseless re bukes. But it saved him. Alone with God he registered a vow that he would drink no more. He was still young, and returning prosperity rewarded the keeping of his solemn pledge. Liquid Vacuum. When Thomas drove up to a house on Elizabeth Street yesterday to de liver the usual quart of mixture, the gentleman of the house kindly inquir ed : "Thomas, how many quarts of milk do you deliver?" "Ninety-one, sir." "And how many cows have you?" "Nine, sir." The gentleman made some remarks about an early spring, close of the Eastern war and the state of the roads, and then asked: "Say. Thomas, how much milk per day do your cows average?" 'Seven quarts, sir." "Ah um,"said the gentleman as he moved off. Thomas looked after him, scratched his head, and all at once grew pale as he pulled out a pencil and began to figure on the wagon-cover. "Nine cows is nine, and I set seven quarts down under the cows and multi ply. That's sixty-three quarts of milk. I told bin? I sold ninety-one quarts per day. Sixty-three from ninety-one leaves twenty-eight, and one to carry. Now, where do I get the rest of the milk? I'll be hanged if I haven't given myself away to one of my best custo mers, by leaving a darned big cavity in these figsrers to be filled with water!" Detroit Free Press. A Terrible Liar. "He was the orf ulest liar I ever seen," said Cooley O'Leary, as we returned from his friend's funeral. "Why he told me once that he lived on a small island in the Pacific ocean on which t here was a volcano. And he said that thece was an active demand out in that region for watermelons, so be went in to the business of raising them. And he said one year his whole ciop failed except one melon, and that kept on growing at such a fearful rate that it crowded him off the lowland and up the side of the volcano, which genera ted steam and caused an explosion which blew up the whole concern to atoms, and shothim four hundred miles out to sea, where he was picked up by a whaler. He used to tell that one great mistake of his life was that he didn't drive a plug in the crater of the volcano so as to make it. water tight, and then slice open the watermelon and come sailing home on the half shell. He would lie. He said that once he was cast away on an iceberg, with no baggage but a pair of skates and a fish- inir pole. But he skated around till he came across a dead whale, frozen into the ice. So he took off his shirt it was night for six months that year up there tore it into strips for a wick, run the strips through a bamboo fishing rod stuck the rod into the fat of the whale and lit the other end. He said it burn ed splendidly, and the iceberg reflected the light so strongly that it was bright as day for forty miles around, and one vessel ran into the iceberg, thinking it was a light-house. He said he sold the iceberg to the captain for 815,000, and the captain split it up and took it home aad made 200 per cent, profit disposing of it to ice companies. Lie? well, sir, he beat any man I ev er came across. He told me that once, out in Nevada, a mountain lion attack ed him, with his mouth wide open. He had presence of mind enough to grab it by the tongue and pull. The lion roared with pain, but he did his level best pulling, and pretty soon the tongue began to give and the tail to shorten, and directly out they came, the tail and the tongue in one continuous string. He said he had 'em at home, and he showed 'em to me: but my belief is they were only three or four cow-hides ami a bull s tail dove-tailed together. He was astonishing as a truth-crush er, lie said ne serveu on a gunooai durinsr the war which was very small and lhrht. while the mortar on deck was very large and heavy, and he said the first time they tried to fire a fifteen- inch shell, the shell remained stationa ry, while the recoil was so great that it fired the gunboat for miles up the stream and landed it in a tree. He was a liar, but he's dead: I reckon he'll catch it." There was no doubt about it; Mr, O'Leary was very successful as a con structor of energetic works of fiction. THE SAVIOR'S MANNER. An Eminent Contemporary of the Mas- ter Describes Him. The veteran journalist, Thurlow Weed, sends the following to the New York Tribune: THE SAVIOR. (Description of Jesus by Pubiius Len tulus. President of Judea, in the reign of Tiberius Caesar.) There lives, at this time, in Judea, a man of singular virtue, whose name is Jesus Christ, whom the barbarians esteem as a prophet, but his followers lovp and arlore him AS the offspring of the immortal God. He calls back the dead from their graves, and heals all sorts of diseases with a word or touch. He is a tall man, and well shaped ; of an amiable and reverent aspect; his hair of a color that can hardly be match ed, falling into graceful curls waving about, and very agreeably couching upon his shoulders, parted on the crown of the head, running as a stream to the front after the fashion of Nazar ltes.his forehead high, large and impos ing; his cheeks without spot or wrinkle beautiful with a lovely red; his nose and mouth formed with exquisite sym metry; his beard thick, and of a color suitable to his hair, reaching below his chin, and parting in the middle like a fork; his eyes bright blue, clear and serene; look, innocent, dignified, man ly and mature; in proportion of body most perfect and captivating: his hands and arms most delectable to be hold. He rebukes with a majesty, counsels with mildness, his whole ad dress, whether in word or deed, being eloquent and grave. No man has seen him laugh, yet his manners are exceed ingly pleasant; but he has wept fre quently in the presence of men. He ?s temperate, modest and wise, a man, for his extraordinary beauty and divine perfections, surpassing the children of j men in every sense. The Savour is so seldom recognized in profane history, that this contribu tion to his perfect'ons is especially valuable. OUR FAVORITE MONTHLIES. A Word Abont Them. Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly and Sunday Magazine, the April numbers of which are now ready and may be ob tained at most any book, store, at all newspaper dealers, or post paid from Frank Leslie's Publishing house, 537 Pearl Street, New York, on receipt of price 25 cents each, are it.deed marvels of excellence and cheapness. Having but recently called the at tention of our readers to our notice of the last number of the Sunday Maga zine, we will now confine ourselves to a brief Synopsis of the April number of the Populak Monthly. It con tains articles as follows: "The Iiio Grande Frontier, and our Relations with Mexico, by Egbert L. Viele; "How Elections are Conducted m France," by William Staugh ton Chase; "Oppression of Christians the Cause of Turkey's Fall"; "The Application of Heat to the Warming of Public and Private Buildings." I Professor C. A. Joy; "Parisian Salons of the Seven teenth and Eighteenth Centuries," by Henry Barton Baker. Stories by the author of "That Husband of Mine," S. Annie Frost, Etta W. Pierce, the au thor of "That Lass o'Lowrie's," and others; also numerous interesting par agraphs on a variety of subjects to please everybody. 100 illustrations and 123 quarto pages. Annual Sub scription on either the Magazine or Monthly, S3, post-paid. Beautifully bound Volumes III. and IV. of the Popular, Monthly (for 1877) are ready, and may be obtained from the publisher, post-paid, on rer ceipt of price, S2 per volume. Volume I. and H.of the Sunday Magazine (for 1877) are also to be had; Volume I. for $2, Volume II. for 82 50, post-paid. The two semi-annual volumes of either of the above mentioned books contain at least 1.536 quarto pages and over 1,200 illustrations a volume to be treasured in the family. Two negroes were in the woods split ing rails, when the question of what was the best thing in the world to eat came up. A stake of "fo bits" was de posited on a neighboring stump, to be taken by the one guessing the first pal atable dish. After throwing "heads and tails" for first guess, the winner exclaimed, "'Possum and sweet per ki te r!" Sh-h-oo!"ajaiulated the other, "take de money! take de money! I didn't tink you'd guees de b$ rry best fus ting." State Items. Fillmore County is working hard for coal. The Sioux City ferry crosses teams for twenty five cents. Dr. Converse is going to bring a stock of hardware to Lincoln New Paper ; Valley Co. Courier, Vip ton, Nebraska, Messrs Nelson & Gran ger, Editors. Jordan & Ruffner's storebuilding in Crete was nearly burned on Wed nesday of last week. The Exeter Enterprise says Exete is the only town on the B. & M. that has no saloon. Hastings Journal; Over four hun dred have signed the red ribbon pledge under the persuasion of Mr. Finch They have pop corn sociables at Be atrice. If vou want to find out what thev are eo and see. so says the Ex press. The Sherman Co. Commisoners have compromised with the B. & M. on de- linauent taxes bv accepting 81,200 to re used in the erection of a new Court house, and half a section of land for county poor farm. B. F. ltuffner. a merchant of Fair mont sells his customers 820 cash cou pon tickets, which are punched as they buy groceries, &c, and when the ticket is used up he presents them with dollars worth of groceries extra. The Sheriff of Dodge Co., undertook to seize some cattle belongiug to some Bohemians and an old woman went for him with a pitch fork, another with rake, and a boy with a shot gun, so he came heme, and made another success ful raid two days afterward Mr. Touzalin, Gov.Carber and others interviewed some of our prominent cit izens on Friday- last about the pro spective Republican Valley R. K. iwo propositions from the company for the road, one starting from Hastings the other from Juniatta: whichever votes the most bonds gets it. North Neb. Eagle ; A man named Tim Kemper of Covington, Dakota Co. was killed by lichtning on the 20th inst. He had just crossed the Missouri from Sioux City and was ty ing his skiff, when the lightning struck him. It is stated that eight years ago a man was killed in almost the same spot in the same way. The new reading room on 8ixth St., will be opened on Friday evening, March 22d, with appropriate exercises. The following committee have the matter in charge: On table, Mrs. J. Goff, Mrs. Fred DeLaMatyr, Miss Mat- tie Short and Miss B. Osborn; on speakers, Mrs. Prof. Wightmau.Mr. W, H.Michael and Mrs. Judge Bell. Fre mont Herald. Adams Co. Gazette ; Last Friday night, after filling every hotel and boarding house in the city, 75 persons were compelled to sleep in the two passenger coaches which were switch ed off on the side track, and glad were they to get even such accommo dation It is said that Will Stincucomb is circulating a petition for the purpose of organizing a Young Men's Christian Association. A grand idea, and I for one. am pleased to see that Will is re forming. Thatcher's grain elevator gnve way to the winds, one dayjlast week. About three car-loads of grain was in the building at the time. "For what was Ctesar noted ? asked a teacher of his class. "He et tu brutes," shouted little Goorgie Spinney. The next day Georgie had a patch in his pants where the day before he had none. Over a bridge at Athens, Ga. was the following: "Any person driving over this bridge in a faster pace than a walk shall, if a white person.be fined 8, and if a negro, receive twenty-five lashes, half the penalty to be bestowed upon the informer." Her Feet. Nellie has a 4-year-old sister, Mary "Mattie." they call her. The other morning she complained to her mam ma that her "button shoes" were "hurting," and mamma thought relief might come from changing right to left. "Why, Mat ie, ycu'v put them on the wiong feet." Puzzled and just rpadv to crv, she made answer. "What'Il I do, mamma? the feet I've got"' They're all Red-headed girls are called "raging blondes" in San Francisco. Exchange. This reminds us of a little incident in the lif . of our beaming district attor ney. Standing with some friends on the street the other day, a young lady passed whose hair was all that "raven" is not. "What lovely auburn tresses. exclaimed the gallant Col. S h and the sanguine Gen. M n, in the same breath. "Yes." growled our fiery at torney, "and when I pass by everybody exclaims. 'There goes that red-headed son of a gun !'" Republican. In the State of Mississippi there are ninety-two newspaiers,whose combined circulation is about GO,000. In Arkan sas there are seventy newspapers, whose combined circulation is about 35,000. Mississippi h;.s 828,000 people ; so that it circulates one newspaper to every fourte.i souls. Arkansas has 4S5.000 people, which gives it, in pTDfjortion to iu population, about the same r.tws paper circulation of JlissiCTippL Erihi of Gossip. - I have known a countay society which withered away to nothing under the dry rotof gossip only. Fr lends hips, once us firm as granite, dissolved to jelly and then ran away to water, only because of this; love, that promised a future as endearing as heaven, and as staple as truth, e vaporated into a morn" ing mist that turned to a day, long tears only because of this; a father and a son' wero set foot to foot with tho fiery breath of an auger that would never cool again between them; and a hus band and a young wife, each straining at the hated leash which iu the begin ning had been the promiso of a God-' blessed love sat mournfully by the side' of the grave where all their joy lay buried, and all because of this. I have seen faith transformed to mean rtoifbt,-" joy give place to grim despair, and char-' tty take on Itself the features of black, malevolenco, all because of the fell words of scandal, and the magic mut tering of gossip. Great crimes work' great wrong, and the deeper tragedies' of human life spring from the larger passions; but woeful and most mourn ful are the uncatalogued tragedies that J3sue from gossip and detraction; most' mournful the shipwreck often made of noble natures and lovely lives, by the' bitter winds and dread salt waters of slander. So easy to say. yt t so hard to disprove throwing on the innocent all the burden and the strain of demon strating their innocence, and punish--ing them as guilty if unablo to pick out'' the stings they never see, and to silence' words they never hear gossip and slander are the deadliest and cruelesfr weapons man has ever forged for Lin brother's heart " Is the Cow Queen! ; Cotton has had the name of king on ' account of the magnitude of its value to the country, the crop being worth ' more than that of any other of our agri cultural productions, but our dairy In-" terest now rivals, if it does not surpasa in money value, the. time-honored mon-. arch of the South. Mr. Sherman Tra cy, in an address to the Western Re serve Dairyman's Association, at Gar-1 rettsville, Ohio, said that in 1S75 there were in thi3 country about lO.OOO.OOO' milch cows, which, atS per head, rep- ' resented a capital of $150,O0O.OW In the sumo year there were manufactured ' 203,009 ,3i4 pounds of cheese, 025,191,219 ' pounds of butter, and 320,500,599 gallons of milk were sold. Besides this, an enormous quantity of milk was con- Burned in families, of which m account can be taken, but evidently four timea- the quantity noted as sold, which would make the total quantity consumed and1 uold 1,302,002,:DO gallons. This would,' make the probable yearly yield of the cow in butter, cheese, etc., as follows : Cheese, 'J0'J,JOS,381 pounds, at 12 centa per pound, S4,440,31i0 ; butter, 625,191,- 219 pounds, at 22 cents per pound, $137,- 642,04$; milk, 1,302,002,396 gallons, at 8 cents per gallon, $101,10,101 ; and" 9,000,000 calves at $1 per head, $9,000, 000. Total, $275,142,585, as the annual product of our dairy interests. The value of the cotton crop of 1875 wal- scarcely more than $200,000,000, so that the cow must wear the crown. Ex, Homely Girls. ' ,t "How did that homely woman con- - trive to get married?" is not unfre- quently remarked of some good do mestic cre-iture, whom her husband re- ' gards as the apple of his eye, and In whose plain face he sees something belter than beauty. Pretty girls who are vain ol their charms are rather - prone to make observations of this' kind, and a consciousness of the fact that flowers of loveliness are often left ' to pine on the stem while weeds of homeliness go olf readily, is no doubt. at the bottom of the sneering question. -The truth is that most men prefer homeliness and amiability to beauty and caprice. Hamlsomu women art -sometimes very hard to please. They are apt to overvalue themselves;, and in waiting for an immense bid they oc casionally overstep tha market. Their" plain sisters, on the contrary, aware of - their personal deficiencies, generally lay themselves out to produce an agreeable' impression and in most cases they succeed. They don't aspire to capture -paragons with princely fortunes, but they are willing to take anything re spectable. Russia leather is made of calf skins, - first steeped in a weak bath of carbon-" ate of potass and water; neltt immersed -in another bath containing dog and" pigeon's dur.g in water Freed from - the alkali they are thrown into a mix- ure of oatmeal and water to underco ? slight fermentation. To tan these - hides birch bark is used instead of oak. ' When tanned and dry, made pliable by - oil and fiicti.ni, they are rubbed ovei gently v-iih birch tar, which gives anf agrt caW i odor and renders them proof' agaaist ruoUiS airJ worms. Don't Kua Arter a MeaL We do not mean that a man shoulrl not exercise due haste iu pursuit of -meal, but he should be calm after he . h s caught it. A gentleman nd his son the other mornin? were a little late -for their customary town train ou the South Western, and had to "make a. run for it." They were successful in . their attempt and caught the train. -But the younger gentleman- gasped for breath, made a few motions with his; hand, and would have fallen if he had not been caught. Before the train ar-. rived at the next station he w&s dead. The verdict of the coronor's jury, fol lowing the opinion of the medical wlfc- t ness, was to the effect: "That dealt, arose from syncope of the hearty brought on by running, after a Ueatty meal." Such was the end of aentle. man, only thirty years, of age. Gk Pop.