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Z"a "T- v"fr "xtF THE BED CLODD CHIEF. Kates of Advertising". J"S The Red Cloud Chief. One column, due jrr S?3.0ft iuir 0. aa.-Ur . thjr: sdvcrtUetncits. and at!r:ilc:acnta tot ! line tivj one jcar. :o ubjl to srctI contract. Local and KJttorU! Notice 10 eai ltn tot izl Insertion, and b cent for each sabscqutsl Icje'oa. Lesl sdrerilstnj : U!c:e rrlcs. Uumc carCt $?prjrar. Tfcese r oar lowtslcatb rsUs. and bo OtteV Unas wltliw circa. PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT RED CLOUD, NEBRASKA. i&. el. -vrjEisrEij RED CLOUD, NEBRASKA THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 187G. NUMBER 29. volume III. I.Mltor ami J'roprlctor. JSsfrf snMVmmi jr fi 3 c Lj t t - ITEMS OF INTEREST. Thu Germans are engaged in making a revision of the Luther Bible. It was begun in 1S70. Mrs. Colidiet, of San Francisco, has started a school for the moral training of Chinese women. Frofcssor Tice informs us that 21,000 years from now there will be another v. inter just like this one. How CDticing for u man to live on. Kansas has 871 092 acres ot school lands jet unsold, not including the land in six counties which have made no re turns. It is valued at five million dol lure. A Catholic priest has established a misjion among the Esquimaux of the Arctic circle. lie travels over an im IJWise district with sledges, sleeping ;,ghti under a snov. hut. The Boa rd of Forc'gn Missions of the Lutheran Church publishes the distress ing fact that Its treasury is bankrupt. The Board has ten missionaries in Afri ca and m India, and reqires $8,200 in gflld lor the payment of their salaries. It is now indebted to the amount of $5,000, much of which is due to the mis sionaries. Tli ere are now eight pin factories in the United State?, which make 47,000, 90 pins daily. In addition to these the imporlutiou of pins reaches 25,000,000 daily. As these are al' easily sold, it is stfe to say that 72,000,000 of pins arc lost daily, or .10,000 every minute. ")J'!iere they go to is a wonder. The National Haptirt complains that out of the 925 Baptist associations, 359, or more than one-third, have ma:Ie no returns for the "Teir Book" of 1870. The associations heatd from report 87, ,71 baptisms during 187r. Estimating lor the others, the National linptisl makes the whole number of baptisms lor the year 100,000. '1 lie total ineiii beishipof the Biplhst Chinches is set down at 1,315,310, an increase from lasi ear of 5-1,129. The London Pictorial World says that iho story of Cinderella is not the inven tion of tome imaginative genius, but that it is founded on fact. It cites Strain) as its authority The story is as "follows: One day a lady named Ilho Wipis was bathing in the river Nile, and the wind carried 0113 of her sandals and laid it at the feet of the King of Egypt, who was holding t court of justice 111 the open nir not far away. His curi osity was oxcitid by the singularity of the event and the elegance of the sandal, and he offered a reward for the discovery of the owner. Hhodopis claimed it, and it was found to lit her exactly. She wus very beautiful and the King irarried her. She is remembered in history as the "Hoy cheeked Q-uen" of Egypt, and she lived two thousand years before the Christian era. Trices Past and Present. The Economist of to-day gives an in teresting review of the prices and com modities in England during the past year. The most notable fact is the sta tionariness of prices at the low level to which they dc.-cended in the beginning 9 of 187-1. This shows that the condition of business has of late been utterly non epcculativc, although the luvel of price is so low that consumption absorbs what is offered at those prices, or very nearly does so, while the prices themselves aic m so little above the cost of production that no material fall takes place. These conditions, the Economist thinks, are most favorable lo the development ot a highly profitable period of trade; and that they also indicate that the failures and commercial crises of the past year have not been the beginning of an un prosperous period, bu: the result of a previous period of adversity, their actual ellects on trade being of a most superfi cial and transient kind, so, that now the momentary disturbance to credit is over, ipsiness resumes its former course. The uouclusion is that there is no reason why this year should not ba very prosperous, because it follows a year of crisis. Even the iron trade is beginning to look up :t little, ana mote has been doing in it last year than in the year before. The depression has been due to the excessive amount of capital and labor engaged in the trade, but not to an absolstc dimi nution of demand. Indeed, prices are now at a level at which the demand steadily increases, end there is every t prospect of continuous improvement, though possibly subject to.. temporary mictions. London Litter in the Neva York Times. A construction company has been or ganized to extend the l)es Moines & Minnesota (narrow gauge) railroad from Ames to Cedar Falls or "Waterloo. The president of the new company is J.- S. Folk, ot Djs Moines, and the board of directors fs composed of prominent gen tlemen in the several counties interested in the extension. It is stated that the Des Moines & Minnesota IUilroad Com Jj&ay propose to iron and operate the new line f soon as it is gradedbridged and tied, Napoleon 11. and Fanny Ellsler. The young Duke cf Rcicbstadt, Na poleon II., delicate in health from hte birth, had never seemed capable of real izing the least interest in life. Nothing could rouse him fcom a profound indir ference and melancholy that penetrated his whole being. He disUusted every body; was unwilling to go into society, it was thought that, if his affec tions could be enlisted, his mind would asset t itself. A number of the fairest young women about the court were pre sented to him, but their charms, their blandishments, their conversation, their passsion, real or feigned, moved him not a jot. Ho turned from them in weari ness, and begged to be excused. Some sigaciouB functionary suggested that the ballet queen should be introduced to the forlorn youth in the guise of a peas ant, in the hop3 that she, so accustomed to conquests, might conquer even him. The plan succeeded to a charm, and Louis fell in love with the seeming peas ant girl. She pretended to reciprocate his love, never intimating that she was not ignorant of his birth and position. Day after day they met in the gar dens of the palaco; they then extended their excursions on foot end in carriage, until a new spirit and a new life became his. He made her his confidante; he told her of his bitter past, the dts pondency; of the hope and joy sho had been the first to awaken in his nature; that she was the one human being in all the world he loved or cared for. In the midst of this idyllic life, the Duke, being one day in the city, felt inclined to visit the theatre. That evening he sat list less in the box, hardly heeding the per formance, scarcely noticing the ballet, until a lithe figure of brightness and beauty bounded upon the scene. He was all eyes and animation at once. He had never imap iued so marvelous a like ness to Marie. Could he be mistaken? He leveled his lorgnette again and again. The vision of the lover could not be deceived. The truth and the whole truth soon flashed upon him. Ills Mai ie and everybody's Fanny were the one and the same. The glass fell from his hand; the poor boy turned deadly pale, aud might have swooned in his seat had he not been takeu from the theatre, and driven home almost insensible. The next morning, the story was all over Vienna. Louis never saw Marie more. The little hope and faith he had she had aroused ; after that cruel trick, he fell once more into himself, never to hope again. He did not liva very long. The very night he died she was dancing in a crowded and applauding theatre. She had forgotten all about him, but she still remembered the $20,000 florins that had been paid her for deceiving him. Sunday Democrat. Old Fashioned Coaches To lie Revived lu New York. We learn with much satisfaction that Mr. DeLancey Kane, who has shown so honorable au enthusiasm in establishing a line of coaches in this ticinity, driven by gentlemen, after the model of those which have proved so successful in Lon don, will, with the opening of spring, establish a line of coaches to New Hochelle, to be driven by himself. The ULdertaking will involve a large invest ment not less, we suppose than $25, 000. It will acquire of Mr. Kane steady work and a degree of persistency whicn would discourage a less enthusiastic lover of driving. Twenty five horses will be necessary for the running of the line, and they will all he of the best stock, fit to make 12 miles ai hour; and the coaches will be of the best modern English style. Tho drive to New lioch elle along the Sound is one of the most ueautiful out of New York, over a good road, and through scenery always at tractive. Mr. Kane, in giving the pub lic an opportunity to obtain coach drives under circumstances so delightful, is entitled to and will receive the thanki of all pleasure lovers, who will abund antly show their appreciation by taking advantage of the enjoyable drives he will ofler them. We also learn that on the North River a line of coaches driven by gentlemen coachmen will probably be started, and that Mr. James Gordon Bennett will al ternate with some other gentlemen of social distinction in driving. These two lines will add much to the attractions lo the coming season, and theirpopu larity will be great N. Y. Sun. How to Make a Nice Ulr. First get your .id. fN. B. She mustn't be an old girl, but a young one, nice nnd tender. Bring her up from early iutUncy on a strict diet of hot pick les, cold brandy and water, Ouida's novel?. Send her to a fashionable board ing school to be '"finished off," and when she comes home for the holidays, care fully develop her latent love for dress, extravagant habit, and fondness fr flirtations. Buy her the Slang Dic tionary, and let her go everywhere and do everything she likes. By the time sho is 31 she will ij8 qmte a nice girl. - THE XLIVth CONGRESS. Senate Friday. Feb. The S-nate resumed the consideration of the resolution for the admis sion of Plnchback as Henntor from Louisiana for six year from March!, 1873,;the pending quesilon being the amendment f insert the word "not," so that It read "B. B. S. I'lnchbark be not admit ted." etc fcenator Morton spoke against the amendment. Alterbrief executive sesidon.tbe Sen&te resumed debate on the District of Colom bia resolution. Keraarks were made by Seiators Sherman, Sargent, and Eaton. Senator Sherman moved to reconsider the voie by which the reso lution wn passed yesterday id order that the amendment of Senator Kat-m, which was agreed to, mliffct be stricken ont. That amendment pro vides that ths resolution shall not in way recog nize the liability of ihe United fcUtos to pay either the principal or interest of any such bonds as my be lsuedon or since January 27, lb6. Tne motion of Senator Sharman a-rued to. the amendment stricken out, anrt the resolution again uased. Senator Hamilton, ef Texas, introduced a bill amendatory to the 5th section of the art of May, 1873, nuking appropriations to supply de ficiencies in the appropriations for service of the gini rnment for the fiscal 3ear ending June flu. i872. and for former years. .Referred to the Judi ciary Committee. House The House went into committee of the whole on the privntc calendar The bill gianllng a pension to Wo. It. Duncan, of Tennessee, was considered, remarks being made by Messrs. Itaiicy, Douglass, Morrison of Illinois, Kasson, nnd Townseud of tiew York. After a lengthy discussion tht committee rose, and the bill was pesstd. .Mouse then adjourned. Sanate ITonday, Ftb. 7. Senate passed the bill providing for the payment of Judgments reu dereil by the con t ot Alabama claims. The chair laid !n fore the Senate the reo'uttons of the Iowa legislature, atking an apprupr.'ation for tho im provement of the navigation of the Upper Missis rlppi river. The Senate resumed the considera tion of the resolution for the Admission of Pinch beck, as Senntnr from Louisiana. Pending dis cussion, tile Senate went into executive session. House. The following bills were introduced: To confirm the Chicago title to certain lauds in Cook county, III.; declaring the birthday of Lin coln a natioaal holiday, una that on the litli day of April a national flitgs shall float at half-mast; to fuhs'.itute legal tender notes lor National Bank notes; to compensate the Baptist church of Helc n. Ark., for the destruction of its building t Federil troop during the war; lo inilemntfy l'ral. ric. Ark., for the de-trnclon of public bnilrtiu-s during the war: touuethe right of action for in juries resulting from the sale of intoxicating liquors. I A ri solution was presented from the Dakota legislature for the organisation of a new territory ont of the northern put of Dakota. A resolution was ndoptcd instructing the committee for the District of Columbia to exvuinu into the expend itttres and management since tho yent 18B, or since their resj ective creation, of the governmnnt nospltnl for the Insane, deaf and dumb institute, the Columbia hospital for women, the board of heolth. District of Columbia reform school, and tne freedmen's hospital, for all f which appro priations hive hen made by Congress. The llousc went into committee of the whole on the diplomatic apt roprintion bill, and after some dis ctisrion the committee rose without datlnite ac tion. After some unimportant business, the House adjourned. Senate Tutmlay, Ftb. 8. The chair laid be fore the Senate a. bill ranking mi appropriation to pay fourteen crippled anil disabled Union sol. fliers from December fi, 187- to June 30, 187l. He lerred to committee on appropriations. M-nator Wright mowd that the Senate proceed tothe con sideration of executive business. The Senate by avotu of S3 to IK, refused to go into executive session, and took up the Centennial bill. Sen ator Enton then offered n resolution in npect to ihe memory of his late colleague. O. II Kerry, the ut derstanding being th it the Centennial bill should come up as unfinished btt-ii.esH to-morrow. Senator Ferry. President pro Urn ol the Sente, at his request, was excused from further service ns a member of tho committee on Fi nance, ond Senutor Cooper wan appointed in tils plare Mr. Morton submitted a resolution, which was agreed to. inMruc ing the committee on the District of Columbia to consider the pro priety of preparing nnd r norting a bill to pro vide a government for theDisttic of Columbia, under which the people may elect nnd conttnl their domestic affairs in a way not inconsistent with the protection, regulation nnd control of the United States of public property. Kulocies in honor of thu late senator Bncklngham were pro nounced by Senators K-iton, S rgtnt. Bayard. Howe Freiinghuyscn, Tburman, Wadleigb, and KUgUSIl. House The JHdiciary committee reported a bill to repeal the bankruptcy act. The D M sec tion repeals the bankrupt act ofthcSlst of Msrch, lSST, and all laws and parts ot laws amendatory the-eofand supplementary tneieto. The second section provides that all suits and proceedings now 1 ending in the United S.ates Cocrts wherein an adjudication in liakr,",-' h H-- nd shall be proceeded with and bo governed by the provisions of existing ltws, which re continued in force only tor the pnrpot c of closing up such proceedings as are now pending: this act to take etlect irom and after the 1st of January, 1873. BUI passed 170 to 50. Tne House went into committee of the whole on the consular and diplomatic appropriation hill, and after remarks bv sever 11 gentlemen, rose without action on the bill At the close of eulo gies on the denth of the late Senttor Ferry, the House Adjourned. An Unfortunate Family. On last Monday, Frank Conard, aged thirteen years, was wrestling with an other boy near the school house ( f Mrs. Lula Thomap, and throwing the boy, joung Conard remarked: "Now I have thrown you," and in a few moments breathed his last. A coroner's jury was summoned and the fact develc ped that the little fellow's neck was broken, and a verdict wag rendered in accordance with the above fids. The unfortunate jouth was the grandson cf Mr. Alfred Swope, cf this place. They have the sympathy f our entire community in their sudden bereavement. The family of the unfortunate youth consisted, six months ago, of six mem bers father, mother, two daughters and two sons. One of tie sons was drowned near six months ago, and i forward the two daughters died with diptheria. The father died soon 6ierward from the shock caused by the death t f his son and two daughters, end now we chroni cle the sudden death cl" the other son. The mother alone remains. She lives near Jeffersontown, Ky. Spencer (Ky.) County Journal. Walking from New York to St. Louis. Four Germans, who could not speak English, arrived in this city yesterday, ofT a tramp from New York. They rt presented that they had been eleven weeks in accomplishing the journey. They were foot-sore, weary and hungry, and without a cent in their pockets. They were en route to St. Luis, and, hfcer resting a f jw hours at the Four teenth Street dtpot, started again 011 their tramp. But when the party reached the bridge they were halted by the gate kecpir, because they could not find among themselves as much as 20 cents to piy the toll. They came back to the d pet, disconsolate, and probably would have taken lodgings for the night in a station house, had not the conductor c f a New Albany train kindly taken them over the river. In their journey thus fdr'these men subsisted by begging their food from day to day, sleeping in barns and out.houses at pjght. Louitxille Qguritr-Jwwti. GENERAL NEWS CUNDENSED. The Mineral Well House, at Lansing, Michigan, burned, February 7th. Loss, 118,000; insured lor half. Dale Bros., dealers in flannels and woolens, cf Boston and cf New York, have failed. Liabilities over$l,0C0,000, and assets rqmttd to be double that amount. The Emperor of Brazil .ha? leased a white marble-front house in West Phila delphia for the summer, and the frugal Quaker owning it charges him only $5U, 000. A Memphis dispatch says that a peti tion in bankruptcy has been filed by the Southern Life Insurance Company. Its liabilities are alleged in the petition to be about 2,117,000. A box and basket factory at Benton Harbor, Michigan, owned by Ingham, LiBlic & Co., was burned, Febiuary 8th. Loss on building ami machinery, $(J0, 000; insurance, $20,000. Nationla Conventions have already been called as follows: April 3 - Colored men, Nashville, Tcnn. May 17- Pro hibition, Cleveland. May 17 Paper Money, Iudianapolis. Juuc M Repub lican, Cincinnati. II. W. F. Lewis, editor of the Western Rural, at Chicago, has been arrested, chnrgvd with covering hib property witli mortgages with fraudulent intent, and running ofF most of his movable goods and printing presses wi:h the view of leaving the State. In default of $12,000 bail he was committed. A fire broke out on Grand stiect, New York, on the evening of February 8th, which proved to be the. most destructive in that city lor years. About thirty buildings were burned, with u total loss of $4,500,000. Three firemen were killed and four seriously injured by fall ing walls. A body of masked men appealed ut the jiil in Blootuiugtou, Iud., Febiuary 8th, overpowered the sheriff, secured hid keys, aud shot aud killed a prisoner named C. A. Marston, who had been convicted and sentenced to the peniten tiary for life three years ago, but the supreme court had recently granted hliu a new trial. The mob left a letter with the BherifF ordering the prisoner's attor ney to leave town within 30 days. There is quite a sensation in New bury port, Mass., over the marriage if James Parton, the author, aud formerly the husband of "Fanny Fern," to his stepdaughter, the same "being forbidden by the statutes of that State. The bride groom learned his status the morning after the wedding, anil to prevent further scandal, lift his wife at his home, and is boarding at a hotel. Ho will apply to the legislature for a tpecial act sanction ing the marriage. Berrin S. Sumner has been arrested in Brooklyn, charged with forgeries in California amounting to over two hun dred thousand dollars. He was an of ficial in the Baptist Church, and covered his transactions with his p.-ofesscd piety. Rev. Mr. Parshall, pastor f the chuxch, learned cf tome t f Sumner's transac tions, and at once tlce latter plotted to ruin him by accusing him of adultery, which charge led to Parshall's leaving his pulpit. His Lodjro. It got so at last, sUys the Detroit Free Press, that his wife began to won der what business "the lodge" had on band that it should meet four or five times per week. He was out four times a week until 11 o'clock, and he came home with redness in his eyes, and his 6tep was unsteady as he pissed down the hall. He said "the lodge business was mighty hard on the muscles, and that candidates were comic g in by the hundreds. One night he groaned out in his sleep, and talked ot "the right bow er," and yelled out "spades!" and the wife wondered st:ll mrre. The otrcr evening the took a position where she could see who went up statrs into the lodge rooms. Her husband pssid by and entered a place where rows of bot tles adorn the shelves, and coiTe and spice stand in a saucern the counter to purify the breath. When she went in he was one of the lour at a table. Each one of the four was looking at the pictures on some cards held in his band. "So this is the lodge, is it?" she in quired, ss she stood before him. He was caught, and he resolved to make a clean breast of it. He laid his cards down, rose up and gave her his arm and said: "I won't lie to you, Mary. This is not the lodge room this is where we stop for a minute to beat the blasted enemies of our craft out of their sur plus greenbacks ! When I come home to night, Mary, I'll bring that shawl you spoke of!" The regularity with which that man now hangs around home every evening in the week is astonishing. The real, object of the drama is the exhibition of th? human character, Woman's Murk ut the Centennial. Tiie Pavilion for Women's Work prom ises to be one of the most unique and interesting features of the Exposition. At other World's Fairs there have been attempts on a small scale to collect the products of feminine taste and industry; Sweden had such an exhibit at Vienna, and Austria also, but none of them were so complete, extensive and varied as to attract much attention. When Mrs. Gillispie and her coadjutors determined that the women ol America should have a department to themselves at the Cen tennial.-tliey found plenty of obstacles in the way. They had raised over $KO,000 by fairs, tea partic?, coucerts and other entertainments, and had paid it into the general fund in the form of subscriptions to Centennial stock, but the Commission was not willing to duvote any portion of the regular exhibition buildings to the collection which they wished to make. It would interfere with the classification to bring in the element of sex, aud set cfTin a corner by themselves such and such articles be cause they were made by women. "Give us back a part of our money," said the ladies, "and we will build a place for ourselves." That was impossible. There was no retroactive arrangement in the Centennial treasury. A little piqued, but not discouraged, the ladies bet in motion thsir successful money-raising machinery of local committees, ami in a few months collected the $JJ0,000 which they wanted. Mr. Schwarzmann, in the meantime, made them a plun for a building, a delightful site whs procured not far from Horticultural Hall, the contract was let, and while the collection of funds was in progress, the construc tion of the building went forward, and now it is completed just as the sum needed to pay for It litis been raised. Who can say after this that women are not practical, and don't know how to manage business afiairs! Well, the Pavilion is ready, except a few finishing touches, and a very pretty affair it is. It would be hard to define the architecture, but it might be de scribed ns subdued and modernized Moorish. The structure is odd and at the same time pleasing, and it is large cnouijh without being too large. People who will feel lost in tho mazes of the main building or in Machinery 1111 will find a pleasure in yetting into a house that does not stretch out into space beyond the reach of th eye. "What is it to contain? Everything women make that is worth showing. Needlework and embroidery of course, but do not imagine that there is to be row on row of pin cushion, sampler and patchwork quilts, such as oae sees at the county fairs. Such articles will not be given much space. Much more will be occu pied by statuary, oil paintings and water colors by famous female artists, pen and ink sketches, wood engravings, crayons, lithographs and decorated porcelain. There will also be numberles household ornaments, artificial flower, flue laces and embroideries, a collection of costumed figures showing the fashions of each decade since 177(1. and of course a brilliant show of modern millinery. Revolutionary relics and other curiosi tiis, for which there is no place in the classification of the Exhibition proper, will alio find room here. The display promises to Imj characteristically femi nineunscientific and illogical, but very attractive. All who desire to contribute articles to it should address at once Mrs. E. I). Gillispie, P.-csidcut of the Women's Cutcnnial Committee. It is especially desirable that all the new avocstiens opened to women In recent years should be represented, in order that the full scope and variety ot the industrial and artistic activity of the women of the United States maybe ade quately shown. Cor. Neve York Tribune. How He takes His Annnal Ua'h. The Inyo Independent sajs: "Met of readers have seen or heard of the Indian s-veat house, but few have ever witnessed the interesting treatment the Indian receives when he is in any way indisposed. When he begins to feel the effects of the filth that has accumulated on his person for months, he forthwith takes a 9weat bath in order to get up internal force enough to shed the old scales on the outside. The sweat house is built of a sort of wicker work covered with sod and dirt; a hole is left for the smoke to escape, and a fire kindled at the entrace. The patient strips and lavs down inside; in a few minutts he co.nmanccs to stca'n, prcspire and smell sweet that tie oriental custom of steaming falls into insignificance compared to the primi tive method. This is kept up until the p&tient Is ligbtcntd of his outside crust, then i".e rushes oat and plunges bead first into the stream of icy cold moun tain water. Tnis part of the programme, howe?tr, wa3 omitted the other day at Fish Springs by Big Mouthed Jack and Fish Spring Jim, who, while en joying this luxury, found their iweat fccase ot fire, and the way thej hustlerl out was a credit to their lazy natures. They experienced so damage, however except to change the copper color o their backs to a beautiful pinto." This Is Ihe Way Astors Are Mado. A Munson street man being told there were several pieces of tin which needed merding, conceived the idea of getting an iron end solder and doing the mend ing himselft His wife, filled with vague forebodings jerhaps, said that ihe ex pense was such a trifle that it would hardly pay to do it onesvlf, to which he responded : "I'll admit that in this one instance it would not pay; but there is something being in want of repair every little while, and if I have the tools here for fixing it, we are saved just mi much expense riht along. It may not be much in thecourw; of a year, but every little helps, and in course of time the total would amount to a nice little lump. We don't watit the Astors lugging lf all the money iu the country, by gracious." He got the iron $1 ami 50 cents' worth of bolder, and 10 eeuto' worth of rosin. He came home with these things aud went into the kitchen, looking so proud and happy that his wife would have been glid he got them were it not for an overpowering dread of an im pending muss. lie called for the articles needing repair. His wife brought out a pan. 'Where's the rest? Bring 'era nil out an' let me make one job of 'em while I'm about it." Ho got them all and seemed to be dis appointed thht there were not more of them. He pushed the iron into the fire, got a milk p.m inverted on his knio and, with the solder in his baud, waited for the right heat. "That iron only cost 1, and it'll never wear out, ami there's enough solder in this place to do $25 worth of mending," he explained to his wife. Pretty soon the iron was at the right heat, he judged. He rubbed the rosin about the hole which was to be repaired, held the stick of solder over it, and caret ully applied the iron. It was an intensely interesting moment. His wife watched him witli feverish interest. He said, speaking laboriously as he applied the iron: "The-only-thing-I regret-abnut-it-is-that-I-did-not-think-of-get- ting this-before-we " Then ascended through that ceiling and up into the very vault of Heaven the awfulest yell that woman ever heard, and the instant the soldering iron flew over the stove, the pan went clattering ncross the floor, aud the bar of solder struck the wall with such force as to smash right through both plaster and lath. And before her horrified gaze danced her husband in an ocitacy of agony, sobbing, 6creiming, and holding on to his left leg as desper ately as if it was made of solid gold and studded with diamonds. "Qet the camphor, why don't you," he yelled. "Send for a doctor. Oh ! oh ! Pm a dead man," he shouted. Just then his gaze rested on the sol dering Iron. In an instant he caught it up and hurled it through the window without the preliminary ol raising the sash. It was some time before the thoroughly frightened ami confused woman learned that some of the molten solder had run through the hole in the pan and on to his leg, although she knew from thefiret that something of an unusual nature had occurred. She didn't send for tho doc tor. She made and applied the poul tices herself to lave expenses. She said: "We don't want the Astors lugging off all the money in the country, by gra cious." "Come, Mria, don't you be too cun ning," he sheepishly cxpostulated, Danbury JVr. Sale of Senator Sharon's Residence. Wm. S. O'Brien, of the firm of Flood & O'Brien, says the San Francisco Chronicle, has purchased the residence of Senator Sharon, on Sutter street, for $212,500. The house Iecame somewhat remarkable a year and a naif ago as the scene of a festive event known all over the country as the "Sharon wed ding." It is the mest luxurious-jn the coast, and the price named probably covers all the elegant furniture put into when it was enlarged just before the nuptials. The several articles are all costly. The three chandeliers of the great drawing room co6t $2,100 each: the three in the library, $1,800 each. The lare Axminstcr carpels woven in a single piece for the drawing room ana library cost from $3,500 to $3,000 each. The library fireplace, with the aprx'int- lents, cost not hss than $5,000. Eich I the windows of the dining room was pbolsterd at an expec8i of $2,000. he sleeping apartments show similar ilegance, with corresponding expendi- ire. The entire furnishing of the new part was done at the expense of $05,000, making the house and furniture together worth about $125,000. The re4 estate includes saverailots beside the grounds immediately about fte house, which are very valuable, " ' inauguration Sundaj. The 4th of March, 1877, the day of the inauguration of th next President of the Unite 1 States will tall on Sun day. The question 1m arsen in the minds of some as to what prov slon of law htv lcen mide to meet such a contingency, it being presumed that the expiration of the designated term of four yetirs, at noon, on March 4, will occaion an interregnum in the Presidential ollice. Tho act of Mrch 1, 17U2, states thntthc term of tour years for which . Presi dent and Vicr President sh.-ill be elected, shill in all 'hm commence the 4th dnv of March next succeeding the day on which tie votes of the election Imo been given. The statute book contain ' no other reference to the subject of th T term of the Presidential otFict, and ap ptovisions are made for the cnitingency of the day lor the inauguration of tho President of the Uui'ed States coming on Sunday. The 4th of M irch, inauguration day, since the currying into effect of the pres ent Constitution of the United Stutct, has fallen twice on Sun Uy, Pie first time in 18J1, and the second iu 184'J. Ujmiii both ocfisions .the inauguration of the President took phicu on the fol lowing day, Mon.hty, March 5. In speaking ot ilese events, Xtle' Wttkly liegitcr,ot March 10, 1821, says; "On .Monti y lust, the 5th of March, in the great Inll f rhe House of Uupru suitativc.4, which was completely tilled with people, Chief Jti.-tico Marshall ad ministered the 1 ath of llicu to Mr. Monroe pievlotis to hi on try upon tho duties of bis second term of service tut President of the United States, after which ho delivered hi inaugurl." The same journal, of date February 21. 1840, say: "The Presidential Man sion will be vac ttcd on March Ul, 31r. hinl Mrs. Polk having taken private lodgings until the Gth of March, when they will Irau for Nashvillu via New Orleam." On March 7, 184t, the same journal sajs: "The imposing ceremony of in ducting into ollice ut President of tho United States, General Zichary Tajlor, of Louisiana, was performed on Monday last, in front of the Capitol, in the pres ence of the Senate of the United States, the judges of the Supreme Court, tho late Cibiuet, thu diplomatic corps of the city, and an assemblage of citizens from various ptrU of our Union. Tho oath of ollice was administered by Chief Justice Taney, of the Supremo Court, prior to which the President elect pro nounced the customary addres." It will be seen from the above prece dents that it Iihr been thu cust mi where the fourth of Mirch falls on Sunday tc have the ceremony of tho Inauguratir pcrfunncd on the day following. Thort fore, according to imgc in such contin gency, Gen. Grant, like his predecessor, Monroe and Taylor, vtll be President of the United States for twenty-four hours more than thu duration of the Presi dential ,fli; fixed bv the act of Con gress. 1'hiUidtlphia I'rtt. How .Scandal Grown and Travel. Tint Morrisville (Pa.) clerical scan dal is explained, and is a first rate Illus tration of how scandal can travel and magnify frora a very small tnd innocent matter. The joung, unmarried, brill iant pastor, the Hev. Mr. Shields, was room mate, It seem;, of the dry goods store keeper, and naturally was very frequently in his friend's ttorc, some times helping him. A few days ago he bought 4G cents' worth of goods, leaned over the counter, dropped a $2 bill into the money drawer, and took out the change. Srno customers hw him, guessed he wu stealing, and circulated the story in the village. And from this speedily grew the Ulc that the young pastor was a veteran till-tnpper, and had raided on nearly every money drawer in town. But the church and the pMtor went straightway to worc, and traced me ecanuai iiacic to iu iiarttng point. The store-keeper and his two clerks ex plained the circumstances, a vote of con fidence was unanimously passed, and the little village is quiet once more. Ah Expensive Breakfast. LoDg years ago, way bjck to 1814, when our wives, sisters and sweetheart, wore calico dresses, the material of which w&3 cheap, and mide from s:ven yards, and it coat as many shillings three youny men of capital and high standing, named Strong, Bell, and Sedg wick, indulged in a night's debauch at a hotel in Northampton, Mas. In tho morning they summoned the landlord to their presence, and ordered a break fast, which they stated most be the most expensive that had ever been given in the State. The principal dish ordered was ham and eggs, of which they would go to the kitchen and superintend, personally, the cooking. When the fat was hot, they eaeh deposited in it their gold watches, chains, lockets, and signet rings, which were fried with the ham and egg3. The cost of the jewelry alone was at least 1,500. AU the parties are dead now, but they .lived long enough to know the want of their foolish ex travagance. . Capitalist of our day are more prndeht -with their money, while the laai?3 ljje Kioifnaore eitraiagimt. )AT 1 n ;.