The Herald. The Herald. BBBA8KA A I V K 11 T I H I X G HATES. PUBLISHED EVERY illURSUAY. PLATTSM QUTfl, NEBRASKA. OFI-ICE: Or Vina St., Ooo Block North of Main. -r. 0f Ffttl Street. HERAJLD. kac ,iw.aw..gw. 1 in. 3 in. 6 in. 1 yr. lo,r... $1 H $1 M $2 00 82 Ml $-.00 IS 00 $12 M 2eor 1 M 2 00 2 75 3 25 6.50 10 00 ICIrt 3 Sill. 2 00 2 75 4 00 4 75 8 00 13 00 20 01 ?iCol. 6 00 8 00 10 00 1200 20 00 28 00 35 04 HcoL. 8 00 1200 1600 ISOO 2500 40 00 CO 00 lCol... 15 00 In 00 20 00 2500 4000 CO 00 KM) Of t3f 11 Advertising Bills Due Quarter!. Transient AdvertUmenU most b rl' la Advance. JNO. A. MACMURPHY, Editor. J "PERSEVERANCE COXCJUEUS." TERMS: $2.00 a Year. Largest Cralalira of any Paper ic Cs Cbcnty. Terms in Advance: One eopy. one y" $2.fl0 One copy, six months J.oo Oua copy, three months, SO VOIJTME XVII. V PLATTSMOUTII, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1881. I XUMliER S. lfT Extra Copies of the Herald for sale ky J. P. Young, at the Post-Office Newt, Depot Main Street. We invite Je attention of tlie JPnMi to our ILarge ami attractive Stock of 9 n n if VrL !- aPTlH snrarn p. VUiLiL (Q)y X. J- eav. (gg wlticli OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. .State Directory. A. S. PADDOCK. U. S. Senator, Beatrice. ALVIN SAUNOERS. U. S. Senator. Omaha. K. K. V A LENTI N K. Represeutat'e. West Point. A MUM'S X AN'l'K. Oovernor. Lincoln. S. J. AI.KXA N DKIt, Secretary of State. .JOHN WAl.I.M'U.S. Auditor. Lincoln. O. M. BART LETT. Treiisurer, Lincoln. W. W. .lOM-.s. Sunt. Public Instruction. A. i. KEN'li.vl.L. Lund (.'onmiiffioiier. .J. DlLWoi; 1 11. Attorney General. RKV. L'.C li ISltIS, Chaplain of Penitenthiry. 1K. II. I". M ITHEWSON. Stipt. Hospital fur the Insane. supreme Court. 8. MAXWELL. Chief Justice, Fremont. SEO. LAKE. Omaha. AM ASA COBB, Liucolu. A't ram Jitiiiciat District. S. R. POL'N 1. .Imle, Lincoln. J. WATS. i . I'loxeeutinn-Att'v. Neb. City. W. C. SHOWa il Kll. Clerk District Court. Plattsn o.uh. County Directory. A. N. SULLIVAN, County Judge. J. D. TU IT. County Clerk. J. M. PATTERSON. County Treasurer. E. W. HVEKS. sheriff. E. II. Wijiii.kv, Co. Sup't Pub. Instruction. . FAIRFIELD. Surveyor. 1. P. UASS, Coroner. COUSTV COMMISSIONERS. SAM'L KIC1IAUDSON. Alt. Pleasant Precinct. ISAAC W1LKS. Plattsmoutli Precinet. JAMES CRAWFORD. South Bend Precinct. Parlies having business with the County Conuniveioners, will find them in session the First Monday and Tuesday of each month. 43tf City Directory, J. J. '. M.'PATTEKSON, Treasurer. W II1IIVWIV T-vir J. II. SIMI'SO.N. citv cierK. RICHARD VIVIAN. Police Judge. W. I J. JONES. Chief of Police. V. , E. WHITE, Chief of Fire Dept. 1st Ward F. (ORDER. C. II. PA ItMELE. 2d Ward G W. FA1KFIELD. J. V. WECK- I. BACH. 3d Ward-D. MILLER. THOS. POLLOCK. 4th W:-d P. MACALLAN. C. S. DAWSON. i'otlmatler JNO. W. MARSHALL. PROFESSIONAL, CARDS in. ii. mi:.dk, PHYSICIVN and SURGEON, office in Fitz uerald lilock, which will be open day or uight. ' 21tf IMt. J. 1. HrCKKA, IKOHEI'ATIIIC PHYSICIAN. Office over U. V.Matliew's Hardwaru Store. Platt-nioutli, Ne braska. S7l' It. U. LIVIMiT(X. M. I-. VHVSICIAX & SfKOKOX. OFFICE HOURS, from 10 a. :n.. to 2 p. in. Examining Surgeon for U. S. lVnsion. i XV. CLl'TTKK. DB1TTIST. Plattsmoutli. XebrsiHka. OiTiceon Main Street over Solomon & N'a thaii's Store. 41y WILL H. WISK. COLLECTION'S M Si'ECIMLTl. ATTORNEY AT LAW. Real Estate. Fire In nurance and Collection Agency. ttlice in Fitz gerald's block. l'lattKiuoutli, Nebraska. uUJ KO. H. K3IIT1I. ATTORNEY AT LAW and Real Estate Bro ker. Special attention Kiven to Collections and all matters affecting the title to real estate. OfJiee on 2d floor over Post Ollice. Flattsniouth. Nebraska. w ' id. ii. -viiki:m:k a t o. IVWr OFFICE, Real ltate. Fire and Life In surance Agents. Plattsiuouth, Nebraska. Col lectors, tax -payer. Have a complete abi-tract of titles. Buy and sell real estate, negotiate loans. &e. ,5 l SA 5. .IS. i'HAIMI AX. ATTORNEY AT LAW, And Solicitor in Chancery, oniee in Fitzger ald Block, lyyi rLATlSMOUTIl. NEB. It. B. Win dham. D. A. Camphki-i.. Attorney at Law. Notary Public. AVIXOIIAM Jk CAMI'IJKI-L. COLLECTION AND REAL ESTATE AGENTS OfHce over W. II. Baker & Co's Store. Plattsmouth, Nebraf ka. 20ly JtJIES K. MORRISON', VV. L. BKOWXK. Notary Public. MOKKIMO & llKOAV.XK. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Will practice in Cass and adjoining Counties ; gives specia'. attention to collections and abstracts of title. Ollice in Fitzgerald Block, Plattcmoutli. Nebraska. livl BRICK! BRICK! II you want any Fire or Ornamental Brick, Call on J. T. A. HOOVER, LOUISVILLE, - - NEBRASKA. PLATTSMOUTH MILLS. PLATTSMOUTH, NEB. C IIEISCL., - Proprietor. ...... Flour, Com ileal & Feed Always mi haii.I ami torsalc at l.c! t:i.sl: priees. Tiie !ii;;ii'M (.rices itai.l lir '.Vj.--.il ai.i! Corn. Particular atten:i'!i j:i-ii cusion. work. AUKXI .1 I .AM l'i:it4 M:ke li'nm to .r:(. .-r Wfck s.-l'insr r.M.ilslor K.t. lillil'ot i CO.. V i'.:itchi -ticct. New Y'ork. Send inr cai.iiuL tie .tnd tci iiis. ?ly J. F. BAUMEISTER Fumislie Kres-li. Pure Milk. ii:i,e vi;!ti :i e .411.1. Special call attended to, and Freh Milk from same cow furnished when wanted. 4ly roTJ 5rDs. r MACI1IN SHOPS! joeit wrv3i.Nr I'l.ATTSMOUTH. NEB.. Rejxiirer of Steam Engines, Boilers, Sum ami Qrist If ill f ti AH AM NTKAJt FITTliH, brought Iron Pipe, Force and Lift PiKs,Steam Gauge. S:;fety- Vaive Governors, and all k'...'.s of l'.r:iss Engine Fittings, repaired on short notice. FARM MACHINEH FRED. I). L Ell Nil OFF, 31orniiiiX Iew Saloon ! South-east comer Main aiil Sixth Streets. Kee'ji Hie best of Beer, Wines, Liquors & Cigars. 32ujy t . oiiKluutlv on Hand. we Iiave just received for tlie steds and (Cottons, and can offer renter Inducements in PMIDES than ever lefore An examination will well repay -tliose In searclt of ISarg-ains. Iff AT lis Straw, Maw jFelt and FIe IFelts and Wool. B. & M. R.JR.Time Table. Taking Effect December 5, 1880. FOR OMAHA FROM PLATTSMOUTII. leaves 7 :20 a. in. Arrives :3o a. in. 2:45 p.m. " 4:x p. in. " 7 :00 a. in. " 9 :10 a. III. FROM OMAHA FOR PLATTSMOUTH. Leaves 8 :."o a. in. Arrives 10 :oo a. in. e :iV p. in. " 7 : p. in. " 7 ;00 " " 0 :00 " " FOR THE WEST. Leaves Plattsiuouth -.20 a. in. Arrives Lin coln, 12 :05 p. in. ; Arrives Kearney, 7: 4o p. 111. l-eaves Plattsmouth at7 :2o p. in. ; arrives at Lincoln at 9 :.' l. 111. Freight leaves at H :.nl a. in. and at 8 :10 p. m Arrive at Lincoln at 4 : ,Vp. 111. and a :oo a. in. FROM THE WEST. I'aves Kearney. 3 :3n a. in. Leaves Lincoln, I .on 1.. in. Arrives Plattsnioutii. i :M i. m Leaves- Lincoln ut 5 A a. 111.. arrives at l'latlsmout ll 8 a. III. Freight leaves Lincoln at 12 :05 p. tn. and C :40 p. m. Arrives at I iatlsinoiitii at : p. 111. auu 1 1 :.." 1 . in. GOING EAST. Pase'iger trains leave Plattsinoiuh at 7 00 a. 111.. s os a. 111., 3 40 p 111. and arrive at Piicitic Junction at 7 30 a. m.. 8 o0 a. in, and 4 10 p. in. FROM THE EAST. Pasnenger trains leave Pacific Junction at 8 30 a. m., 4" p. 111., lixxi a. in. and arrive at riaits mouth at 9 On a. m.. 7 !" p. 111. and 10 HO a. 111. U. V. St. St. Time Tabic. . Taking Kfftct Sunday, Detemhrr 5, 1880. WKST. STATIONS. KAST. . :ir,pm HASTINGS. 12 :10aill 0:15 AYR. H:5 7 :25 P.LUE DILL. 10 :;i 8:20 COWLES. 9 :J0 8 :i5 I AM BOY 8:25 j :i i F.EI Cl.'TI). j 8 : 10:1", IN A YALE. l :Xi ii:.',5 KIVERION. 0:10 11 :4o ! FRANK LIN. ' " :10 i2:lipiii . i'.LOOMINGTO.'-'. i 4:4". I'l N A PON EE I: to I .. Ul i'l.'lIl.iC AN 3 :l 1 .-!i ' A!. M.V 2 :.V. :iv : Oiil.EANS ; 3 :.. OX FOB 1 1 12 :.r)t)aill 0:00 j ARAPAHOE 11:40 AKItiVAL. AM li:iAIt Tl'MK OF I'l.tTTHOI TH .1IAILH. A It It I VKS. p. 111. 1 9.30 a. 111. f H.oo a. m. 3.:u p. tit. t ii.on a tii 7.30 p. III. 10.30 a m. i 7.3 p. 111. f ll.oo a in. ll.oo a Li. Nov. 10, 1 M DF.I'ARTS. i 7.00 a. 111. 1 3.on p. ni. I 8..V) a. 111. I ;.1" p. in. 3 (HI p. Ill 7.i;o a. 111 ( 7.45 a. ni. " 2.00 p. 111. l.tKI p. Ill l.dO p. in KASTKIfN". W KSTKIIN. NORTH KI.'V. suir 1 OMAHA WKKM.Vd WATKIt, t actm: v vi i.i.k. J. W. Marsh ai.u P. M. mi. 0UIX HAULING, south ui-:xd. xeu. DRUUS, PA NTS, OILS, ETC., FLOUR AND GHOCERIES in genera!. Dr Darling is alo a Practising Physician and can always be found at his Ollice In the Drug Store. Special attenti.ui paid to OBSTERICAL CASES. 31m6 HAY BROTHERS, DEALER in HARDWARE. STOVES ik TINWARE. OL'TII I!CD, X Kll It ASK A. A Good Tinner always on hand. Repairing done neatly, promptly and cheaply. Eave-trotighing and Roofing aIo done to order. Rememberthe name and place. Hay Eros. South Rend, Nebraska. 3lm3 O. F. JOHNSON, DEALER in Drugs Medicines AND All Paper Trimmed Free-of Charge. ALSO DEALER IN Stationery, Magazines, AND Latest Publications. PrrMrrlptlona Careflly Compounded ly an Experlenred IraseiHt. REMEMBER THE TLACE. 6t!i ST., 2 DOORS SOUTH OF MAIN PLATTSMOUTII, NEB. UNION STORE I Eight Mile Grove, Neb. EY WALTER JENKINS Ilaving opened a New Store at the abov I call attention to mv stock, and ask the patronage of my friends and the Public in general. Dry Goods, Groceries Tinware Woodenwart aud General Goods of all sorts, C :? ATD C3-003D Call and see our Stock lefore going elsewhere. 24ly "Walter Jenjn3. WALL PAPER. HENRY BGFCK DEALER IN xl ? ni t vl r e SAFES, CHAIRS, ETC., KTC, FTC, Of All Descriptions. METALLIC BURIAL CASE. WOODE2J COrriNTS Of all sizes, ready made and sold cheap for cash MY FINE HEARSE IS NOW READY FOR SERVICE. With many thanks for past patrona. invite all to call and examine my LARGE STOCK OF 13tf. F I" It XT I t K AXI t'OFFIXS r; AT A'.l James Pettee DEaLER.-IN Musical Instruments, Sole Appointing Agent for The Unrivalled 2rlaon Hamlin CABINET ORGANS. Also State Agent for the Henry F Miller and W. C. Emerson Co. Pianos. .SAMPLE INSTRUMENTS at office. Sixth, one door south of Main St. PLATTSMOUTII, NEB. Music Scholars Will do well to examine our Xcw Mason & Hamlin 0C3-JnT ITSTE,TJCTOa zn 2 s 3 2 $4 t3 H ri & a c o D S e J 0Q . "s 13 o 1 . T3 a o o P5 " an s .0 CP o cfi 9S C 3 c3 5 s s; Ml p-i o aj 55 MONARCH BILLIARD HALL! In the basement of Merges' Stoic, PLATTSMOUTII, - - - NEBRASKA. One door cast of the P. O. Rooms Newly Fitted up With SMV M OX AIICII TAIIIiKS. Cigars & Temperart& Drinks On hand at the counter. It is a wide and spacious Hall ; plenty of room lor players j.uu seats lor visitors. En. Olivk.u. P. B. MURPHY, Manager. lltf Prop. The Purest and llet Sledicine ever ade. AeolmWn ation of Hops, Buchu, Man drakleuid Dandelion, wltbaUtbe best and mostearativepruwrties of all other Bitten, mca the greatest Blood Purifier, t-lvnr Reg U IX.S tor. ul Lifofcnd HealtU Honoring Agent on' No d?ase oU possibly lontr exist where Hop Bitters are nsVeVio varied and perfect are their operatioi Iie7 s'.ti uw li' b1 ricr ts tba el i:i . To all whose mploTciiU cause irregulari ty of the bowelaor urinary organs, or who re quire an AppctizerTo c and mild Stimulant, HopiUers are inral-a.aa Wltnout intOS- Icatine. Ko matter what your feellnrs or symptoms are what the disease or ailoii Is use Bop Bit ters. Don't wait until you a re sick but if you only feel bad or miserable, oe them at once. It ma y saToyourlife.lt haeBsved hundreds. $ 500 will be paid for a cal they will not cure or help. Io not suffer .""et your friends uffcr.but use and unto themV Bse Hop B Remember, flop Bitters is noV rfla, drujrtrttd drunken nostrum, but the Purest n d Best Medicine ever made ; the "UiVAUDsW Hil and BOPE' and no person or family I"""" ie wiuioui ueo, n.l.CIs an absolute and irresistible rare I iorbruukeniKfW, use of opium, tobacco and narcotics, aai sum oy urutriTisUL Bend for circular. usi oiuera an;, va Rwhwtfr t T and Tomntf.. Out. J s SIGN, CARRIAGE AND ORNA'. MENTAL PAINTER, -A. ASHLEY. Shop over the Brick Block next to H. Boeck's. PLATTSMOUTII, - 4iy - . NEB. mwm - Wftn. . . , i 5IPILirMK irBSAIIDlE. We Itave j lji,www,isg!w,,wil m m Mi'rlrf immiiJ r s a? National Bank OK PLATTSMOUTH. NEBRASKA. JOHN FlTXOKUAUD .. E. f. IlOVKV K. W. MrLUflHUX. JONH O ROUHK. K . President. Vice President. t'ashier. ...Assistant Cashier. - This Bank is now open for httsi:ies at their uew room, corner Mam and Sixth slierts. and is prepared to transact a general BANKING BUSINESS. Slocks, Bonds, Gold, Government and Local Securities BOUGHT AND SOLD. Deposits Received and Interest Allott ed o?i Time Certificates. DEAFTS DV-WnT, Vvailahle in any part ol th'- United States and In all the Piincipal Towns ami i.'ities of Europe. AGCXTS FOR THi; CELEBRATED nman Line and Allan Line OF STKAJUIiW. j 1 Person wishing to bring out iheir friends from AKrope can t'UKCHASK Tlf'HKTS FKOM I'S Thro us to Platte mouth. WEEPING WATER BANK of - i:i:i 1:110s. This Bank is now open for the tranactioii of a oi!Nri:Xj Banking Exchange Business. IK POSITS Received, and Interest allowed on Time Certi ficates. I RAFTS Drawn, and available in the principal t..wus and cities of the United States and Europe. Agents for the celebrated Mam, Line of Steamers. Purchase your tickets from us. Through from Europe to any Point in the West. REED BROS.. 21. f Weeping Water. Neb. E. SAGT3 Successor to Sack Bkothkhs. Dealer in TINWARE, SHEET IRON, ZIN :o: At the old Stand opposite tlie new llm. PUMPS, GAS-FITTING. ALSO Making & Reairincr Done. A. G. HATT JUST OPENED AGAIN. Neio, Clean, First Class Meat Shop, onMain Street Corner of ml.. Plattsnioutii Everybody on hand for fresh, tender meat. ieTl.06 ROBERT DONNELLY'S "WG-0T AVD BLACKMITH STO-t- Wagon, Buggy, Machine and Plow re pairing, and general jobbing I am now prepared to do all kinds of repairing im wiu ui i.T-i iii.iiiiurr , ns mere is a good lathe in my shop. PETER RAO EN, : The old Rehable Wagon Maker has taken charge ol the w aiion shop, lie Is well known as a - NO. 1 WORKMAN. Xew lVaoni and tns:iet made to wruir. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. . Shop on sixth street epposite Streight's Stable TsTT DOOB TO CA-RBTJUI' State News. Central City needs a permanent den tist. Do-r-poisottiiig is in vogue at Col li ml' ns. Surprise parties are the order of tlie day in Kearney. (Jlen wood Opinion. K iirney lias set out of tret's on her sties two car loads ts and school grounds. Seward Reporter: Saline county's greatest burden is to support 8 editors and 2(i lawyers. The German societies of Omaha have commenced the erection of a i-aiM'ei T-st building. l'l eiiiotit is getting up the Fan 15ri gade and The Land ol Xd, two vei v pretty displays for children. Fillmore has more handsome lady school leacheis than any other county in the slate. (irafton Gazette. Win. Graves employed on a work train on the U. P. fell from a flat car and had both legs cut off by the mov ing train. The new Opera House in Omaha is : exitcted by its owner Mr. Boyd to he j opened in September at the time of the j State Fair. ; "Ohio" is the Japanese for how do you do. Herald P. I. Man. It is also United States for give us an office. Cent. City Item. The Central City Item don't know how to dodge the high license law and anti-treat bill. Keep a good look out and you will probably find some one who can teach you. Mr. James Gillespie of Neligh must be pretty hard to kill. The lightning struck him tore his clothes off, knock ed his boots into a thousand fragments and rendered him senseless for a num ber of hours, yet he is now up and about. A block has been bought and shares guaranteed to the amount of 800,000 to build a grand hotel in Omaha which will be named "Tue U'M.ir 1" after the prominent baiikr-rs ol thai name Work on it t (.niiiiiciu-e July. 1. Daniel McKenzie, who shot himself last fall, near Kenesaw, for the love of a girl, who afterwards relented ?nd married him, has become insane. It is probably the effects of the shooting, it pressing some portions of the skull too hard on the brain. Hastings, Ne braska. A few days since, Win. Luther, on behalf of the people of Covington, pre sented Capt. Andrew Larson, of the ferryboat Andrew S. Bennett, with an elegant live oance silver watch with chain to match, as testimonial of their appreciation of his kindness during the flood. Work on the double track from Glen wood to Pacific Junction, the long passing track at this point, and Idling the pond near the depot, will proceed at an early day. Iai Stroud will probably be conductor of the working train, and the dirt for the fills will come from the cuts on the crest of Glen wood grade. The latest labor-saving machine is a little hand planter for the garden, the property of J. T. Clarksun. It is pro pelled like a wheel barrow, and depos its your tiny seds just to suit. When ever they perfect a weed-pulling at techment, we shall invest in one. and will then pronnunce it an institution that lias long been needed. Schuyler Sun. Our Glen wood preachers are receiv ing a state noteriety because of the display of muscular Christianity they manifested on the St. Mary levee a short time ago. Certainly they have lost none of their host of friends here by the act. and we justify them in their work by saying that the end sought to 1 e gained saLCtifles the means. We think the people at the Junc tion are greatlv indebted to the un tiring efforts of Mr. II. II. Wi.kins, the agent of the combined railroads there, for his efforts to make them as comfortable as possible, under all existing circumstances. To this end he has sacrificed his own comfort at times, and yet has done o cheerfully and gladly. Oakland moneyed men are moving to have a packing house built there. They also offer two of the finest lots in town to any one who will guarantee to build a S5.O0O brick hotel. They likewise discuss the desirability of it paper mill and starch factor', and re joice over the prospect of a second railroad from Lincoln -via Fremont. Business enough for one day. A gang of tramps imprisoned in the Omaha jail proceeded to defile the cell they occupied, and the jailor turned the hose upon them and the room, then left them to spend the night in their wet clothes. The editor of the Bee says it is cruelty to animals. The editor of the Herald, president of the society for the prevention of cruelty t animals says "served 'em right." The North Nebraska K igle savs: A writer from this place tells Ihe Sioux City Journal the whole truth about the floods in this county. He says our town and county escaped the flood completely, so far as los. is. concerned and continues: The water from the lake north of town escaped through one or two sloughs and spread over some low land, but did no damage. The railroad suffered considerable be cause of insufficient sluiceways." all tlie latest styles in (Oassimeres, Wor fa Two men, owners- of the fishing smack at Plattsmouth, have been driving a lively trade, this week, as ferrymen over the murky waters of the booming Missouri, charging a dol lar to land a passenger at tlie east end of the trestle work of the iron bridge, or take him therefrom to the Junc tion. Their boat held comfortably ami safely, nine passengers besides the two men in charge of the craft. We learn of several cases where people who may properly be denom inated human hyenas, have visited som- of the premises on the inundated Bottom and robbed them, not only of household goods of value, but of that which is really an object just low. the contents of the larder, meat and dour. A thief is :i mean man at any time, but i thief who will prey upon people already stricken deserves more than ordinary punishment. He ought to lynched, and we haven t any doubt would be if discoverable. Married, in Schuyler, April 15th, at the residence of Mrs. L.uneburg, by Jiidge Bussel, Mr. Esaias Hoesbi and Miss Sibila Schiuid, just arrived from Switzerland. The contracting parties had never before seen each other. She arrived on the afternoon train and went direct to the residence where tlfe knot was tied. After which the groom went about town to attend to some business, and as he was returning, the bride inquired of one of the inmates "if that was her man." There was ev idently more business than affection done up in that little transaction. Schuyler Sun. The following we take from the ioux City Journal, and commend it to the owners of .cows in this place: "An anti-cow-bell association is great ly needed. No sooner are the terrors of the blizzard and blockade over, and the horrors of the flood partly past, than the incessent ding-donging of the sleep-destroying cow-bell breaks in to make life tortuous. The cows, even the amorous ones, are not to be blam ed for wearing bells and do not de serve the bricks and bad language that are h tilled at them nightly by shirt clad citizens. But there is no word of apology to offer for the thing calling itself a man that will fasten the bell on the bovine." Grape Culture. The following brief, practical and condensed rules for the management o-f grapes were given by Dr. W liiting, at the Farmers' Institute, receiiily held at Saginaw. Mich.: The soil best suited lor the grape is decomposed shale, but any good clay soil, thoroughly drained, will do. The ground should be carefully pre pared, stud only well-rotted manure used. Decomposed turf is one of the best fertilizers; when it can be obtained, no other will be required. The vines selected lor planting ioul.1 be good one-year-old layers or cuttings. They may look small, but will make the best vines. Good culture is as necessary to the vines as to corn or cabbaage. Mulching and watering the first year should not be neglected, if drouth is excessive. One good soaking is better than many sprinklings. More water can be saved with a hoe than can be put on with a sprinkler. In planting, cut the vine hack to two buds, whatever its age and strength. Summer pruning consists in pinch ing off weak and struggling shoots, in order to confine the sap to the main brauclies. The first summer allow but one main shoot to grow. In the fall, after the first frost, cut all the summer growth back to within two buds of the ground. The second year confine the sap to two branches, and in the fall cut back to three buds each. The third year, if your vine has made vigorous growth, a few stems of grapes may be allowed to mature; but better take off ail the fruit than to suffer too much to grow. Too heavy bearing while young will weaken the vine for all future time. The trimming now depends on what kind of trellis you wish to cover. After you have obtained a good, vigorous root, you can make it grow in almost any place or shape you wish, by keeping the Lraucii s desired tied up. and ail tie others pinched back. "Ton can easily tell how much io cut away by Itolding your new wood up to the trellis, aud imagine it branch with three s:ems of grapes for each bud. If you do not cut off enough in the fall, aud you tind that t he vine is go ing to be too thick, don't fail to attend to it when the new shoots are from three to six inches long, in tire spiing, or while in blossom. As soon as the fruit is set, examine the vine, spread out the new wood so that each bunch of grapes will hang free and clear; pick lf all Hie small stems of fruit, and fas. en ihe vine securely, so that the wind will not destroy your crop by breaking Ihe young and tender branch es. When the w ood has grown so that there are three leaves bevond lhi last bunch of grapes, examine the vine, se lect the branches you wish to have for fi uit-beai ing t he coininj year, and keep them tied up until th y have grown as long a you wish to make use of. The ends of the other bearing branched should be pinched off as soon as they reach this point, "ihiee leaves beyond the last stem of grapes." Herbert the time. Silencer is sick marly all What doth it profit a man to" know all ti.-e philo-opliy in the world and not have control of his own in- terior? V Lj CL.J J EJCJVI& Itrady's) Defense. N. Y. Tinis. As soon as Mr. llrady, late Second Assistant Postmaster-General, had precipitately resigned his ollice. he came to New York. In this city he has ever since remained. If he were innocent of any evil or dishonest in tention in his discharge of official du ty, he would have staid in Washing ton, where he is on trial. lint, being in New York, where ho is less con spicuous than in Washington, I13 writes to the Herald an elaborate and painful defense of his course. The de fense is painful because it is manifest that it has been xtorted from him by i the pressure of cucuiustances. All ! criiniiijils, when hard pressed, try to ' find relief in addressing them to some j immaterial point in the case against mem. .Mr. Jirauy, 111 like manner, rests his case upon the comparatively unimportant fact that Congress has voted the money needed to supply the deficiencies in the star route service. The history of the scandal in Congress is one which few of the Congressmen who stood by Brady will be willing to see reopened. The appropriation for the year ending June 'M, 1SS0, was spent within a few months after the ye-ir began. Th s, of itself, was a pro ceeding which could be justified only by extreme necessity. No such neces sity txisted, ami tlie deficiency was tardily reported to Congress. When it was reported, the Postmaster-Genera!, who was but the feeble echo of Brady, said that he would be obliged to curtail the mail service generally, unless something was done at once to make good the scantiness of his bal ance. This was in the nature of a threat. Unless Congress made good a deficiency which was variously estima ted at from 1,173,000 to $2,000,000, not only the increased service which had been unwarrantably contracted for, but the original service, for which the regular appropriations would have been sufficient, must be discontinued. The premature exhau.-tion of the ap propriation was in defiance of all rules of business, and in utter disregard of the interests of the Treasury. It is now a year since Tim Times, speaking of this business, said : "It is not too much to say that if the action of the Post Office Department had been dic tated by a r'ng of greedy and unscrup ulous contractors, bent on plundering the Treasury under forms of law, and plotting to place the Government at the greatest possible disadvantage, it would not have been different from what it actually was." The defense of Brady was that this enormous augmentation of iln; postal service had been solicited by members of Congress, and that they had assur ed him in advance that his action would be condoned, even approved, if he persevered in his extravagance. The sequal proved that Brady's trust in Congressmen was not in vain, 'l i e House inserted in an appropriation bill a clause which provided that tin fraudulent star route contracts should be rescinded on Oct. 1. unfes3 the con tractors should submit to a reduction of i0 per cent, of the recent increase. The senate struck out that clatise of the bill, and it is r.otoiiotis that this was accomplished by the open and shameless lobbying of the tricksters who were going and coming at Brady's bidding. The names of some f these men have since been printed in the Times' reports of the true inwardness of the star route ring. Possibly, some of the Congressmen who supported the claims ot Brady and his gang honestly believed that the country demanded an increase of mail facilities. But 110 man who looked into the matter as certain members of the House and Senate certainly did, could have been so imposed upon as lo vote for an in dorsement of Brady's extravagant pol icy. Is it in the bounds of leason, that Mr. Blackburn, of Kentucky, for example, who was on both sides of this question, at different times, really believed that public policy would jus tify an increase of mail service Le tween the village of vinita. Indian Territory, and the town of Las Vegas, New Mexi'-o, to such an extent that it should cost S150.3!)3. when it had only cost 86,3:30 a mouth before? This is preposterous, but it is not more absurd, on its face, than many other of tlie propositions upon which tlie disgraced ex-Assistant-Post-Mas-ter-Geneial bases his defense. In the face of the fact that he in creased the cost of the smallest branch of the postal service to an enormous and unprecedented extent, spending millions where hundreds of thousands had before been sufficient, Mr. Brady has the assurance to say that this was done in pursuance of Post-Master-General Key's "liberal p.dicy," and in pursuance of the recommendations of Congressmen. In consequence of this noble and patriotic action, Brady. ;ic-. coiding to his own account, has been le.-t by "pieis brigands," who have endeavored to black-mail the virtuous star ionic contractors whom he has defended. lit has "set his face as a liiiu" ;:gaiiiht sill propositions to buy : off -Mo- whole body of defamers," but j he fails to show why he laid down his . papers and fled out of his ollic;; to j New Yolk as soon as the President! asked for his resignation. lie in-! dulges in a general denial and defiance but until he offers ;i better defense of' his policy than the assertion that i Congressmen were equal!' bl.mie-wor- thy with him we must continue in the J belief that his wanton increase of public expenditti! es to the amount of more than .SU.OOO.OOO was a deliber ately dishonest act. I l--H4 MtJM. I I11"" S3 ffN The Dress Kiddle. BY JENNIE JUNE. There was a time when sanguine women believed in a iiiillenitim of j dress as well as one from the point of 1 view of the political economist, but ) those of them who bestow.any thought on the matter have long ago given up this idea, and hope for nothing except that which is represented by the growth of the individuals and the in dustrial progress of the race, which bears with it changes Unit confront us sis necessities ami create revolutions in clothing, as in other things, in a quiet but thoroughly effective way. In the meantime, individuals have their destinies in this respect in their own hands, Out of the disorder that reigns, it is perfectly possible to create a quiet, graceful, refined style of dress, that does not outrage or even disturb any existing mode, yet is independent of it and more in accordance with gen eral requirements and womanly in stincts. The cultivated classes anionp women are working this out for them selves very successfully. It is not a cultivated class, though it may be a moneyed class, who army themselves in beaded costumes and theatrical look ing bonnets for the street, who wear half long sleeves and half bare arms covered with bangles upon the side walks, who make short skills si mere pretense for exhibiting scailet stock ings and red edged rullles upon their skirts, iind make no pretense of con cealing the amount of paint and pow der upon the skin by covering with a narrow strip of black and white dotted veiling. Is this attire suited to a modest woman? Does it not preju dice her iu the eyes of all men? Walking up Broadway one bright afternoon recently, it was sickening to see the number of young girls and comparatively young women, well-fed, over-dressed, lounging, sauntering, without an apparent object or purpose, and with an insolent assurance of manner that looked down upon self respecting industry as something in finitely below them. It is these that keep the ranks of wretched women thrown upon the world without le- source.s and without the means of helping themselves always full. It is impossible to blame men for putting a low estimate on women so long as any coiisideralbe number of women justify it in this way. or permit themselves to be so inisrepi esented- A walk down Broadway in the morning does not thus cfl'end one's sense of the divine harmony and fit ness of tilings. The women upon the street aie quietly and sensibly dressed. They walk steadily sis if with a pur pose. Their dark hats and jackets are no more conspicuous than those of men and their very appearance an nounces that theirexpeditionhas.ipur pose ami means "business." If exer cise is to be taken there are other ways of obtaining it t ban to dress in ques tionable t.iste in sin exaggenited man ner, and saunter up and down si busi ess thoroughfare sit the time of the day when gentlemen are returning to their homes, :ind for no other apparent purpose than to be met by them. A trousseau of this description, made with care and showing in every detail such refinement of tsiste is more rare now-a-days than formerly. Thirty years sigo all line underwesir was hand made, and mother's superintended the preparation of th ir daughter's bridal outfits if they did not assist in doing the s wing. Every aiticle in those days, and still more strictly in the years of the haif century that preceed cd these, was arranged and laid away with loving care until all were com pleted; and the tenderness and mother hood thus inwiouht were si talisman, si sale-guard stud si benediction for the years to come. Thsit was a worthy outcome of abundant means, of delicate tastes, of refined hsibiis, but what does wealth and what we call "luxury" do now? It takes twice, thrice, five times the amount of money, smd it goes to one of the mammoth ladies' furnishing establishments smd buys a quantity of ready inside garments showily trim med with plenty of cheap lace smd em broidery. The bride to-be isdelighted. he has wanted just such tilings for years. Some ,of her friends have thf in, and there's so much lace ;uul milling every where, and they are so cheap" thsit she wonders, smd so dots her idle smd foolish mother, how any woman can be so "silly" sis to take the trouble to make or have underwear made now-n-days. But it is not too much to say that the hundred dollars' worth of cheap, trsishy cotton and cot ton l ice lay sit the foundation of many wrecked lives. They sue worth less for wesir, especially when subjected to the average household and laundry washing, smd have to be replaced out of a small sahuy, or the income of si man perhaps struggling to establish hinsell in business. The glamour has all been taken stwsiy the bride of si few months is loud in her complaints of the wretchedness of the stuff which had set-med shortly before so indispen sable to her happiness, but she dues tit.t know, or has not thejhabit of do ing any better, for she goes 011 commit ting, to the extent of the means she can control, the same folly over and over again. Mr. Iliriu-on. of Camlnd:r , M.nos., h.i-; itiTi-odueed :i b!U in the M:. -acini-sells legisi.-itiire to nliolish the law that athci-m in si witness in court may affect his credibility. !Jegt!rdin the primary object ot legislation sis redress of griev ances, and that there is :i great- griev ance to atheists in the present law, he believes that it should be repealed.