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VOL. 1.
BELLEVUE, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOIlKlt 15. 1857,
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IIELLCVIC (ITY, X. T.
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L. L. Bowcn.
. ttokvk.y a.:i cob'.'ii:Moa at
i. LAW, Hellevue, N. T. 1-tf
S. A. Strickland,
ATTORNEY" AND COUN'SELLOIt AT
I. A W, Hellevue, N. T. "1-tf
C. T. Ilolloway,
ATTORNF.Y AND COUNSELLOR AT
LAW, Uelltvne, N. 'r. 1-tf
, w. n. coo.
GENERAL LAND AND JIKAL F.STATR
AtiKNT, Iti-llevuefity, Nebraska. 1-tf
B. P. Rankin,
ATTORNKY ND COUNSNLL0R AT
LAW. La PI tttt, NV 1-tf
, 8. W. Cozzens,
ATTORNF.Y AT LAW and General Land
AGENT, Oiniha city, N. T. Office in
Henry k. Root's new lirick Block, Farnhsm
atrect. no lfi-fim.
John W. Fattison.
ATOTARY PFHLIC AND UF.AL ESTATE
1 AGF.NT, Fontenellf, NT. 1-tf
James 6. Izard & Co.
J- AND AGENTS, Omaha, Douglas County,
U Nebraska Territory. t 1-tf
Drs. Malcomb & Pock.
OMAHA CITY. Offi-e on Harney street,
opposite the Post Office. Particular at
ittntion given to .jiirgerv. 1-tf
P. E. Shannon.
"IOEAL ESTATE AGENCY, Cerro Gordo
- JX Post Office, St. Mary. Mills Co., Iowa. 2
" PTETShannon,
VOMMISSION t FORWARDING MER
CHANT, St. Mary's Landing Mills Co.,
Jowa. 2-tf
Peter A. Sarpy,
J FORWARDING 4. COMMISSION MER
? CHANT, Bellevue, N. T., Wholesale
Dealer in. Indian Goods, Horses, Mules, and
attl.. ' 'tf
D. J, Sullivan. II. D..
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. Office
Head of Broadway, Council Dlufls, Iowa,
nov. 13 1-tf.
T. . CCMINO. JOHN C. Tl'SK.
- Cuming it Turk.
Attorneys at Law and Real Estate .Igeiiis.
OMAHA CITY, N. T.,
WILL attend faithfully and promptly to
all business entrusted to them, in the
Territorial or Iowa courts, to the purchase of
lots and lands, entries and pre-emptions, col
lections, fcc.
Office in the second story of Henry & Roott
;new b.iildin?, nearly opposite the Western
Ex-'hanjie Bank, Faruhitin street.
Papers in the Territnrv
f"le, and Keok'ik Time please copy and
thtrpt Kehriskian ofiioe.
Job Printing.
"VTEATLY and epe'!tiousW exeeuiej, on
ll reasonabls terms, at this Ottre.
IIIHIM'.SS (Mil US.
D. II. Solomon,
ATTORNEY and COUNSELLOR AT
LAW, Glenwood, Mills Co., Iowa, prac
tices in all the Courts of western Iowa ami
Nebraska, and the Suprome Court of Iowa.
Land Aerncy not in the Programme, no 4-tf
t. T. HOLLOW Y. C. P. K F.I.I. I S
Ilolloway & Keller,
G'lENEHAL LAND AGENTS, Bellevue
f city, N. T., will promptly atti-nd to the
collecti'im and investinsj money, lopiitini? Land
Warrants, buvinff and sollini: city lots, 4tc.
Ollice at the Ili'llrvue House.
Oustav Sccger,
rtlOPOGnAPHIC AND CIVIL ENG1
X NEi'.Il. I'.xpcutes Drawing nnd Paiiilini;
of everv slvli? and ilcsci itilion. Also, H II
business in Ins IIiip. OlhVe on Gregory Blict, I
St. Mary. Mills county, Iowa. l-tt
Greene, Wcare Si Benton,
RANKER- AND LAW AGENTS, Council
UIiiiIh. Polnw.ittanii"' roimty, Iowa. I
(ircene &. Weiire. Ccd.u- lUpuls. lu.va.
Greene, Weaie it Hire, Fort Dps Moines, la.
Collections made; Taxes paid and Lands j
purchased and sold, in any part of lowa.l-tf
"W. "W. Harvey, j
ClOl'NTY SURVEY OR OF SAUPY CO.. !
' will attend to all hunim-as of Surveying,
layinc out and dividing lands, surveying and
platting towns nnd roads. OlHco on Main I
street, Belief, N. T. 2!'-tf.
GEO. SNYPER. JOIIX II. SHERMAN.
Snyder & Sherman, j
A TTORNEYS and COUNSELLORS AT
i. LAW, and NOTARIES PUBLIC. Conn
ell BlufTs, Iowa, will practice their profession
in all the Courts of Iowa and Nebraska.
All collections entrusted to their care, at
tended to promptly.
Especial attention given to buying and jll
in? real estate, and making pre-emptions in
Nebraska.
Deeds, Mortages, and other Instrument of (
writing drawn with dispatch acknowledg
ments '.Ai'ii, &c, &.r."
Ollice weit side of Madison slreqt,
just above Broadway,
nov n m l-tf
WM. n. SMITH. J. H. SMITH
Smith fc Brother,
ATTORNEYS & COUNSELLORS at LAW
and Dnlers in Heal Eslat, Rellevue.
Nebraska Territory, will attend faithfully arid
promptly to buying and selling Real Estate,
CiivLot Claims, and Land Warrants. Office
at ilin Henlon House. 21-iiii
j. n n6iv.
1TTCRXEY AM) CO t ML LOR AT LAM
GENERAL LATD A SENT,
AND NOTARY PUBLIC, '
riithmoutfi, Cass Co. X. T.
ATTENDS to business in any of the Courts
of this Territory. Particular attention paid
to obtaining and locating Land Warrants, col
lepiion -of debts, ane taxes paid. Ltters of
inquiry relative fo any parts of the. Territory
answered, ii accompanied with a fee.
REFERENCES :
Hon. Lyman Trumbull, U. S. S. from Ills.;
Hon. Jaines Knox, M. C. " "
Hon. O. H. Browning, Quincy, "
Hon. James W. Grimes. Governor of Iowa.
Hon. H. P. Bennett. Del to C. Irnm . T.
Green, Wear &' lleirton, Council Bluffs. I.
Nuckolls & Co., Gbviwood, Iowa. 23tf.
Ira A. W. Buck, 1
I- AND and General Agent-. Pre-Fmption
U Papers prepared, Land Warrant bought
and sold. Office in th Old State House, over
the U. S. Land Office.
REFER TO
Hon. A. R. Gillmore, Receiver, Omaha.
Hon. Enos Lowe,
Hon. S. A. Strickland, Ctllevue.
Hon. John Finney, " . . ,
Hon. J. Sterling' Morton, Nebraska City1.
Omaha, June 20, 1S.7T. 3.1
II. T. CI.ASKE.
A. 11. CX.A 11K .
CLARKE & BRO.
FORWARDING; and commission
MERCHANTS,
STEMBOAT AND COLLECTING
A C K T S
BELLEVUE, NEBRASKA.
Dealers in P:no Lumber, Boors, Sash,
Flour. Heal, Bacon, &c, &c. .
CV Direct Goods care Clarke & Ilro.
l-tf
roTEX elle" n a k of belle : v i c.
Ilelleviie, Nebraska.
IS prepared to transact the general business 1
of Banking, will rcctivt deposits, Discount ,
short paper, buy Bills of Exchange, mi all:
parts of tht Country, and tell ou St. Louis,
Chicago and New York) make collections in 1
th i-iinit tr a nrl r.mil tr lk.,m. I '
. ......j .vt , ..... ,U UIV wciiic mi vullcill
rates of Exchange.
3? Interest allowed on special Deposits.
JOHN WEARE, President.
Thos. H. Benton, V. Pres.
Johm J. Towm. Cashier. 1-tf
Banking Hours From 0 to 12, A. M,, and
1 to 3, 1. M.
W. n. Longsdorf, M. D.,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office on
Main, between Twenty-Fifth and Twenty
Sixth streets, Bellevue City. 33tf
THOS. MACOM. A IO. MACON.
Macon & Brother.
A TTORNEYS AT LAW. LAND ACTS.,
I. Omaha City, Nebraska. Office on enr-1
iter of Farnham and Fourteenth Streets. 42tf
50
Sick G.
sold, by
Salt in Store and must be
CLARKE II BRO.
n3ltf.
OOTS and SHOES Twenty cases
ill
Boots and Shoes, all sites, at the
rrn r.vri: sTor.n.
P. A. SAHPY,
FORWARDING & COMMISSION
MERCHANT,
Still continues the above business st
ST. MARYS, IOWA, & BELLEVUE,
N. T.
Merchants and Emigrants will find their
goods promptly and carefully attended to.
P. S. I have the only WAREHOUSE for
storage at the above named landings.
St. Marys, Feb. 20th, 1"7. ?t-tf-l
Tootlo & Greene, .
WHOLESALE 4. RETAIL DEALERS,
Gleuwood, Iowa. We beg leave to
call the attention of the Good People of Mills,
Pottawattamie, Montgomery and Cuss coun
ties, Iowa ( also, Douglas and Cass counties,
Nebraska, to our Ion? n ml late supply of every
kind of MERCHANDISE, usually kept in
Western Iowa. Our stock of Groceries Is
large ami complete, having been bought and
shipped a little lower than our neighbors.
Our stock of Hardware, Qucmswarc, . Wood
enware. Roots nnd Shoes, Hats and Caps anil
Ready-Made Clothing, have all been purchased
in the Eastern cities, at the lowest cash prices.
Give us a call before you purchase, and if
wc do not sell you cheap goods, we will make
our neighbor do so.
Remember the cheapest lions Intowi .
TOOTLE Jt GREENE.
Glenwood, Iowa, Oct. 23, l5ti. 1-tf
Tootlo & Jackson,
I FORWARDING & COMMISSION MER
. CHANTS, Council Bluff t city, Iowa.
Having a Large and Commodious Warehouse
on the Levee at the Council Bluff's landing,
are now prepared to receive and store, all
kinds of merchandise and produce, will receive
and pay charges on all kinds of freigths so
that Steam Boats will not be detained as they
have been heretofore, in gptling some one to
receive freight, when the consignees are absent.
Ri rr.SKNCKS : Livermoore k. Cooley, S. C.
Daviu ic Co. and Humphrey, Putt "c Tory, St.
Louis, Mo.; Tootle &. Fafrlelgh, St. Joseph,
Mo, J. 8. Chenewortli ti Co., Cincinnati Ohio;
W, F. Coiilliongh, Burlington, Iowa. 1-lf
rSAVK I.. KL.MP.
WILLIAM CIWDSHAX.
GUN AND JEWELRY STORE.
KEMP & FRODSHAM,
DEALERS in Clocks, Watches, Jewelry,
Musical Instruments, Rifle), Shot Gun's,
and Pistols.
CLOCKS.
Thirty hour and eight day clocks of the two
best manufactories in the Union; steamboat
and ollice spring clocks.
GU.VI.
Sinple and Hnnhju shot (Jnns, from five to
fifty dollars 1 Riilen, of our own make; also.
Eastern cake; Pistols of all kinds; pistol
flasks, shot bags, waddini; and wad cutters;
common and watcr-prol' caps; colt's caps,
and numerous other articles suitable for the
Western trade, which neither time nor space
will allow to enumerate.
V All of the above articles sold on the
most reasonable, terms. . .Repairing docs to
order at short Mticr. no U-tf
Omaha Citt. N.T J
NEW GOODS! NEW STORE H
'IHE lunlersignnd have opened, M thcirnew
J. store on Douglas street, opposite the
hnnk, a new and splendid assortment of .
DRY GOODS, ,
CLOTH I VG,
BOOTS and SHOES.
BOOKS, $TATiONCRY,&c.
Our stock of Dry Goods comprises all kinds of
LADIES', GENTLEMEN'S and CHILD
REN'S DRESS GOODS,
ALL KINDS OP DOMESTICS
ml everything that is requisite to make up a
complete assortment of Dry Goods.
siraiiJifa. :: :..
We have a large lot of Clothing that is wel
and fashionably made, and out of tht best
material. Our stock consists of all kinds of
Gents' Furnishing. Goods.
BOOTS and SHOES.
Our stock of Boots and fiiioe i.i the largest
ever offered to the citizens of Nebraska. They
are purchased directly from the' manufac
turers, and are of the very besf quality.
Onr roods are all r.cw, add .recently pur
chased in the Eastern cities, and we intend
sellii.i them at astonishing lov prices. 'All
the ci'izens of Omaha ami vic:Diiv are re
quested to call and examine our stock, as they
will find it to their interest to do so.
' fcvjf We atiuly o plea.
no. 10-tf PATRICK it CO.
BELLEVUE HOUSE.
THE PROPRIETOR OF THE ABOVE
LARGE AND POPULAR
H O T EL,
offers every
To the Public, and will render
ASSIDl Ot S ATTr..TIO
To the vault of IIIS GUESTS.
3. T, ALLEN.
Bellevue, Oct. 21, I.Vt. 1-tf
f I1F.A, TE , TEA A tip-top article of
L Young Hyson, at ri.S es. per pound, at 'be
ni l I.K I F vrofiK.
POET It Y.
Youth Ik iio.
I walked once more In the meadows,
Where my feet In chflhood strayed ;
I sit agnln in the shadows,
Where my youth's companions played;
The trees ill accustomed places,
Like familiar forms appear,
Hut the once familiar fares
Ar not here they are not here,
The brook glides through the grasses,
Where It ran long years before, '
And the song it sines as It passes, i
1 Is the song it murmured of yore ;
From lha willow that is nearest,
Sings a well remembered bird ;
But the voices that arc dourest,
Are not heard they are not heard.
The inspiring mom it glowing,
With the light of early days,
And htr robes beauty arc flowing,
Along all her flowery ways ;
But nlasl for nil the swct es,'
All the beamy of the dawn I
For, with morethati fairy llflnees(
Youth is gone ah, youth is gonsl
MISCELLANEOUS.
Climbing Vesuvius at Mulil.
lie who cJiinlm Vesuvius nt night, f-tum-blinjr
over thrt heaps of finder, bruising
his bhins, and scarring his hands nnin.st
the ragged edges, would demand suae
higher compensation thun to oul on the
dark side of a crator-cone. llo will
rarely find it, however, unless ho wait till
dnwii, or the night1 bo bright nnd start y.
We did. Scarcely had we eel down to
rest at the fool of the small cone, when we
observed a great excitement umongit our
guide, who, by violent gesticulation and
vociferation, iii'licnted that they observed
sometliinj iniiiMial in the aspect of the
mountain, nnd vehemently urgud a rapid
dc'.-ceni. The very idea, however, of bo-holding-
even a partial eruption, ut ueh a
time nnd place, fixed us to the (pot. 'Twos
a fit lvght for such a 6cene. Tho air was
heavy and tudphurous; the sky d;uli uud
niurliy, not a blar hhone forth in if, nnd
the moonlight fell with a faint twilight
gleam on t!i ! waters of the bay. There
were soon bigns and portents of a move
ment within. 1 leavings and loud rum
bling were lieurd, as though a thunder
cloud wen) pent in the boem of the mouij
lain. The lava stream grew live and tur
bid. The little wreaths, which hang over
round the edges of the crater, irrew nnd
gathered iulo one huge mass, winch roared
und toased as it rote uud rolled swiftly on,
like the breathings ot a spirit of 1 v j 1 ,
spreading darkness and gloom i round.
v iery BWurdj ef (lame Unshed tliroiijjh and
through the emolu cloud, htrenkin but not
lighting it; and thesu again were boon nb-
orbed in ou largo lire, which riifhed.
strong and lierce from the crater's mouth,
raging 111 wild bursts and wrathful gusts,
coursing after tho smoke, ami muking the
heavens lurid with that strange, fearful
glare which the soul associates with fire
und doom. The roar within deepened,
and the fire grew fiercer every :ioment,
the smoke blacker and thicker, and then
there was n bound as of a mighty wind,
the sweeping of a tornado, and fonh from
the muuiiluiii's depths ihere surged floods
of flame and storms of fiery balls, which
shot meieoMiku into the air, and then felt
and rolled around us with all the force of
red-hot bhot. Lver and anon there woulJ
be a lull, a smouldering; and then again
the volcano would send up its eruptions of
Mm and smoke and allies. Amid the
grand and terrible features of the stone
was one which had much of beauty in its
effect. Ever a? the mountain worked, the
Inva-streuin swelled and glowed, rushing
from its outlet, and running in burning
rills down the mountain side. It has often
been described us snake-hke, JS'o, word
images it so truly. Its glowing color
have the win brilliant beauty which at
tracts und repels, its motion is s-o gliding,
and yrl so swift; and ihero is a serjwiiii
fascination in il, too, which rivets the gaze,
though the eyeballs grow hot, and the brain
burns from contact with the molten hues,
UtacktrooJ.
Post Orrics Amcuote. The N'-w-buryport
Herald tells the following Tost
Office anecdote:
A rap at the delivery. ,
Postmaster "Well, iny lad, what will
you huvet"
IJoy "Here's a letter, the wants it to
go along as fast as it can, cause there's a
feller wants 10 lave hr here, and she's
courted by another feller what ain't here;
and she wauts to know whether he is go
ing to have her or not."
I laving delivered his message with great
emphasis, tho boy departed, leaving ihe
postmaster o Convulsed w ith laughter thai
he n"''!d tii.vl.i: uj ir p'y. . ,
Tur Ixmans. Thrt lownsj, who have
recently been on n lisit to the Oloes, have
relumed, The Oloes presented theui with
Nome sixty horse nnd other gifis. The
Southern Sues are now on 11 visit to the
lowns, to hnve 11 grand prwv-wow nnd
smoke. In all probability, the Iowa will
present them wall all the horses they re
ceived from the Otoes. When the Sacs
return home, they will no doubt be visited
by some other tribe who will get the hor
ses from them perhaps the ( hoes, who
will gel (heir horses bur',-. Such ate the
ways of lilt) Indians. The powwow and
smoke between thu Sacs ui.d lowas, is to
continue several days.
There have been nn unitsiinl number of
Indians in tmvri, for a few days past, We
liolirq (hat their "heads aro right" on the
wutei-iiiellon ipieitiiui they know what
to do with them. We udmire their way
of eating the vegetable, as it is both natu
ral and dainty. They just tdum one down
on the ground, where hogs, h rse und
cattle have I n before ilu ui. They then
gather on lb.- iii i ' .;. the d ri ell
t I 11 l., 11 u.iw , ,t . ... , i .0' , I. l.iiO
a hole under ilii ir mi', uud it is "all any
more." Kiiusns Vl.irf.
Kmigi'utloit .11 (i 111 enl In ltlci
ico.
The JC. Y. ''iiMi.t learns of a movement
of the Mexican (iovcrnuicnt to promolo
emigration to that country, which may
hereafter bo attended with impoilunt ro
suits both to that section and to our own.
A grant has been Hindu for the establish
ment of u line of vteuiners between .New
Ui Ivans nud Vera Cruz, with compensa
tion fur carrying the mails, and witli an
eijuivolent for the passuge money of emi
grants in an allowance of duties upon ear-
goes of goods that may bo imported. The
Mexican Govcrmuunt offers to each emi
grant a free passage in these steamers,
with twenty five acres of luud and a lot in
what is designed tu be a central villngd of
each colony that may be thus established.
The emigrant is allowed throe yeurs to re
fund the pussage money; if it is not paid
ut the end of thut time, the emigrant en
gages to pay live per cent annual interest
upon it, and the government lakes a mort
gage upon the land which he has received,
. Iho oiler is open to emigrants of all
classes; but those who are expected lo avail
themselves of it most largely uro iho bet'
tor classes otfrte blink and mulattoes in
the southern states. liy going to Mexico,
they can still haw the udvuutuges of the
Mue climate as that to which they have
been ticcusloijied, while they will1 escape
from the bevrre and uncomfortable mir
vrithtnee to which tle existence of slavery
at homo utj6cUi them, .
. The south has for a long lime been very
desirous of finding some way of disposing
of the free blacks in that sertiort, who are
snl l to be very little use' at home, while
they are taipposcd to oiler a constant in
citement to discontentment among the
slaves. It is not impossible that a coloni
zation of the kind proposed, if eainesily
and permanently favored by the Mextca-i
government, may be of essential service to
the south in connection with this question.
fso rsr. ron Tnowsr.H. On the morn
ing of the meteoric shower in 18.TJ,'old
Peyton Roberts, who intended to make
an early start to his work, got up in the
midst of the display. Ongoing to the door,
he, saw with amazement, tlu sky lighted
up with the falling me'eors, 'und he con
cluded at once thai the wdrld was on fire,
and thnt the day of judgment had come.
He stood a moment guziug in tpeechle.'s
terror at the bcene, and then with a yell
of lmrror cpraiig out of the d tor into the
Vi.ril rorlil li.tn thn iriliTI tT t in fnlfv
stars! and lher in his t Hons 10 dogde j
them he commenced a series of ground ;
tumWiu,'. that would i.ave doiw honor to ,
a ropu duncer. His wife a wai.. ,,ed in the '
meaiitiuit', and sevm
" old Peyton jump-' comioiiered the pile, and guessing the e
ie yard, railed out to cra l ,h? '"ty" ""ordinary expansion.
and skipping1 about the
htm to know what in tne name, of sense 1
he was a doin' tlmr a dancm' without his I
clothes. JJut Peyton heard not -the judg
ment and back uccount he would have to
settle, made him heedless of all terres
trial things, and his w ife by this lime be
coming alarmed at his behavior, sprang
out of bed, and running to the door,
shriek d at the top of her lungs !
Peyton, I say Peyton, what do you
mean jumpin' about ont tharf Coine i:i'
and put your urowsera on.' J
Trowsers. Peggy, wUt the devil the j
use of trowaers when the world's on lire. '
! , .
Tat was hungry, and got out of the car
for refreshment. The cars very thought- j
Iesly went on without . hi.n. IV.' ire was j
up. "Ye spalpeen! he suited on a run, j
and shaking his fit as he flew after the
train, "s'op there, ye old statue waggin; !
ye murtherin' stame ingine you've trot a j
passenger on board that's left behind!"
- ; j had polished his led-mate's boots instead
The. tobacco-chewer is said to bo like n of his own, he called it an aggravated in
2 .' e in u IM'.-Voeii -:lway on a pit '-t in-? cf "hbottng under a iMv.c,.w
Siimk Don. A gentleman left Holyoke
011 Friday nfternonn for this city, in a bug
gy, taking a favorite dog with him. As
they progressed toward Willianiselt, the
geullemau nmuved himself by plaguing
the dog, till he had got the animal in n
complete worry. Presently the gentle
man' hat blew off, und he went buck af
ter it, leaving his lioiso nnd buggy stand
ing in the mud; then (he dog took advan
tage of his master's absence to jump into
the buggy and start the animal, who mu
ted guily toward ihe river, followed by the
gentleman, yelling "whoa" to no purpose.
His faithful dog now look u position upon
the sent, where ho could keep an cyo on
the master and another on the steed, to
see fair pluy in the race. They approach
ed the Connecticut river, into which iho
waggish brute drove, and, keeping his
seat, floated out behind the horso, who
swam, after getting beyond his depth.
They were seen, at this juncture, by per
sons on the south shore, who put off in a
boat nnd got them safely to Innd- the dojf
in hiith glee nt his successful experiment
in driving and then went buck after their
owner, who will no doubt lenvo that dog
behind the next time he goes to ride. The
best of this story Is its truths Spi ingicW
(.1ifiJi.) Republican.
A Maw or BcsiNr. In ono of the
western counties of New Yolk, is a man
by the name of Zndock Pratt, one
of the bono and siuow, nn intelligent
mechanic and farmer, who ha contribu
ted greatly to tho general prosperity, as
well as to his individual wealth. In a
speech at an Agricultural Fair, in Greeno
county, New York, ho said thot since ho
had been engaged in farming, ho had cm
ployed over fifteen thousand years of oth
er men s labor; had employed over thirty
thousand men, and paid them for their la
bor over two millions five hundred thou
sand dollars. Ho had cleared over tea
thousand acres of land, and used over two
hundred thousand cords of hemlock Lark,
and paid over half a milliun of dollars for
it. He had used and worn out five hun
dred horse nnd 0110 thousand yoke of ox
en, used two hundred thousand Luuhels of
oats, one hundred and twenty thousand
tons of hay, thirty thousand barrels of beef
and pork, nearly one hundred thousand
barrels of flour, and potatoes without num
ber or measure. He had lannedover ono
million two hundred and fifty thousand
sides of leather; his usual disbursement is
over five thousand dollars per duy, and ho
has used iu his business, over ten millions.
He has never had a side of leather stolen,
and Wns never sued on account of his bus
iti"si transactions. We should nay thai
Zadoi k wtisa valuable member of society.
Moreover, this shows tho advantage of di
versifying lubo", and bringing die man
who consumes by the side of him who
produce. Rirhmnnt Dinpufrh.
A Fireman on (be New York Central
Rail road nskeil ih superintendent for a
pass, which ho declined to give, saying
"Tho company employ you and pay you
so inch for your berviees, nnd there our
trade enda. If you were at work for a
farmer for a dollar u day, and wanted to
go to Saratoga, would you expect him to
hitch tip his team and lake ymi there for
nothing." The fireman answered "No,
sir; but if ho bad his team hitched up. and
was going directly to Saratoga, I should
think he was a d d hog if he didn't let
me ride."
The JJostou Post has a story of a face
tious rail-road conductor: "A lady who
had a boy with her considerafy above the
non-paying age, attempted the rather diffi
cult exploit, (in the unii-crmuliue period,)
Chiding her precious son underpins.
L "Lle .J'Jiin' ,v" aw ",ore ., u,l lari
,1" coul(1 arcou"1 tor W nV ordinary the-
crV "r I''' nlrgement, carefully re-
procceawi wunout aymg u worn. 0 coi-
,ect Ia:r t.ar.0,1.e finger na a cair ana
gavp trie way ntr cnange, wnicn, witnotit
looking it over, she put it in her pocket.
lly and-by, observing that tlte hoy was
Aid kept in "durance vile,' uncle John
humanely whispered in her ear You
may as well let hint out you're paid for
both. ' ' ' J ,
Wiuom orTowx Ladies. "Pa.whv
don't you buy a hen, to we cart have all
die egs we want?" .
"My dear, one hen would not lay all
the esrgs we want."
"Why, ye it would, Pa; we only use a
dozen eggs a day, and a good hen would
certainly lay that many." .
The ir;uler' devil says this young lady
U a bister lhe one who lhoi ht miik w
pumped out of cows, and the tail was the
pump-handle.
. .
When Jack Jones discovered that he
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