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J- l2Zfr - -fc --' THE JOURNAL. EATEfl OF ADYEKTlsirVG ISSUED EVI KY WEDNESDAY, M. K. TURNER & CO., Proprietors and Publishers. KETBusiness and professional cards of five lines or less, per snnum, five dollars. SSTFor time advertisements, apply at this office. tSTLegal advertisements at statute rates. " t tSTTor transient advertising, see rates on third page. " 137 All advertisements payable monthly. TST OFFICE Eleventh St.. up Hairs in .Journal Building. T33R3IS! Perlfear, Kix 2tloBtli. VOL. XII.-N0. 49. COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY, APRIL, 5, 1882. WHOLE NO. 621. Thcce neBtht Kiagle Copies, iftttpl (Mil r i I! 4 i. i X I 9 , v. y 1 y CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION. C. H. VasWyck, U. S. Senator, Neb raska City. Alvin Saunders, U. a. Senator, Omaha. 3!. K. Valkstine, Hep. West Point. T. J. Majors, Contingent Rep., Peru. STATE DIRECTORY: Auks us Nanck, Governor, Mncoln. S.J. Alexander, Secretary of State. John Wsllichs, Auditor, Lincoln. (J. 31. Hsrtlett, Treasurer, Lineoln. C.J. Dilworth, Attorney-General. W. W. W. Jom-x, Supt. Public Iustruc. C. J. Xobe, Warden of Penitentiary. '.Vr.Xb,lly, Prison Ufipectors. C H.Gould, i -I.O. Carter, Prison Physician. II. P. Mathew-on, Supt. Insane Asylum. JUDICIARY: GoorKo R. Lake.) ASHOcIate j(gcs. Amaha Cobb. ( S. Maxwell, Chief Justice, FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT. . W. Po-t, J ml ire. York. M. R. Reese, District Attorney, Waboo. LAND OFFICERS: M. R. Iloxie, Register, Grand Ilaad. VtTiji. An van. Receiver, Grand Island. LEGISLATIVE: P-l:il Senator. M. K. Turner. Ri'pri-nt.i'io, !. W. Lehman. 'roUN'TV DIRECTORY: J. G. infills. County .fudire. John StauUVr, County Clerk. J. W. Early, TreaMimr. D. C. KiiVHiiaiiii, SherilF. L.J. Criin-r. Mirvcvor. M. Main r, ) Johepli Rivet, Count Commissioners. J I. J Hudson, ) ?)r. A . Hcintz. Coroner. .1. E. MoMcriir Supt. of Schools. CITY DIRECTORY: J. R. Metsrher, Mayor. 11. J. .fudx.n. Clerk. John F. Wermnth. Treasurer. Geo. O. Itownnn. Police .In dire. L.J. CrainiT, Engineer. rouxciLMKN: 1st Hard John Rirkly. (. A.Schroeder. id H"r Win. Lamb. I. Clm-k. 3(7 rzi''Z J. RiMiiuiHiMi. A. A. Smith. CalnmltiiN Io( OHIce. Open on Siimlay- Irwin II A.M. to 12 M. and from 1:30 to (i r. m. Rusincss hours except Sumliy l a m. to S p. m. Eastern mails cIo-e at 11a.m. Western mails close at 4:1" r.M. Mail leave ('olumbiis for Lost Creek, Genoa. St. Edwards. Albion, Platte Outer. Humplirev, Madison and Nor folk, every daj (except Sundays) at -1:35 p. in. Arrives at 10:. Y. For Shell Crek and Creston, on Mon days and Fridays, a. M., returning at 7 r. M.. same dav. For Alexis, Patron and David City, Tuesdays, Tliursd-ivs and Saturdays, 1 i. m "Arrives at PJ m. for Cmiklinjr Tuesdays and Saturdays 7 a. m. Arrives 0 p. in. same da s . Ij. J. Time TlIe. Eastward Hound. Kunjrraiit, Xo.tf, leaves at Pa.senr, " 4, " " Froiirlit. " s, " Freight, " 10, " " . Westward JSoun I. Freight, No. ."., lea es at . . Passenir'r, " ', " Freight, " !, " "mi.'r:iiit. 7. " " . :2." 11:00 2:ir 4:30 2:00 4:27 0:00 1 :.0 a. m. a. in. p. in. a. in. p. in. p. in. p. m. a. in. three with rdavst j,.. -r' " Every day except Saturday tne iine leading to Chicago connect 1- P. trains at Omaha. On Satu there will be but one train a da shown Uv the followiiur schedule: v, as O.. N. . R. II. ROAD. Time Schedule No. 4. To take effect June 2, 1. For the government and information of em ployeen only. The Company reserves the riaht to vary therefrom at pleasure. Trains daily, Sundavs excepted. Outicard Hound. Inward Bound. Columbus 4:;i5r.M. Norfolk 7:2A. M. l.ostCreek 5:21 " ' Munson 7:47 " PL' Centre 5:42 Madison .S:20 ' HiimpbrevP:fl5 i PI. Centre !):4S I LostCreekl0.09 Columbusl0:55 I HumphreyO 25 Madison jIunon .Norfolk :-4 7:,:i S:0t ALBION IIRANCII Coln-mbiis 4:45 r.M. .Albion 7:43 A.M. I,oitCrekn:31 Genoa .. fi:l( " St.Edvard":00 " Albion .. 7:47 " St.Edward8:30 ' .Genoa 9:14 " Lost Creek0:5) " 1 Columbus 10:45 " R. & M. T13IE TABLE. Leaves Columbus .r:45 a. M. Bell wood :30 4 ' David City, 7.20 " -4 Garrison, 7:4U Ulysses. S:25 " ' Staplehurst, . ... S:55 " Seward 9:30 " irubv :."0 " " Milford. ... 10:15 ' " Pleasant Dale, 10:45 " Emerald. 11:W " Arrives at Lineoln, . . . 11:50 M. Leaves Lincoln at 12:50 v. it. and ar rives in Columbus 7:0r. m. Makes close connection at Lincoln for all points east, west and south. IIERY LITERS, BLACKSMITH AND AVaon Maker, Wiops ntar JJie Koumlry, south of A. A N. Pipot. AH Wlnd f wood and iron work on Wagons, Pugirlcs. Farm Machinery, &e. Keeps on hands the r-VP7rAV SPJtlXG JiUGGY, and other eastern buggies. ALSO, THE pUrst Sr T-5r:iclley Plows. NEBRASKA HOUSE, S. J. MARMOY, Prop'r. Mebraska Ave., South of Depot, COI-IJJIIHJS, 3TEB. A new house, newly furnished. Good accommodations. Board by day or week at reasonable rates. J3T8et a Firwt-Claw Table. Meals, 25 Cts. Lodgings.... 25 Cts. 3S-2tf FAKMERN! BE OF GOOD CHEER. Lot not the .low prices of your products dis courage you. but rather limit your ex penses to your resources. You can do o bv stopping at the new home of your fellow farmer, where you can liud good accommodations cheap. For hay for team for one night and day, 25 cts. A room furnishedVith a cook stove and bunks, in connection with the stable free. Those wishing can be accommo dated at the house of the undersigned at the following rates: Meals 25 cents beds 10 cents. J. B. SENEGAL, mile east of Gerrard's Corral. BUSINESS CARDS. A TTORNEYS-A 7-LA TK, ' Up-stairs in Gluck Building, 11th street, Above the New bank. roil j.jiaugua:, JUSTICE Of THE BE ACE AND NOTAIii BVBLIC, Platte Center, Neb. tt a. UU1MOA, 2T0TARY PUBLIC. 12th Street, 2 doors nnt of Hawmoad Hoase, Columbus, Neb. 491-y piK. 91. . THVHMI'OXt BESIDENT DENTIST. Office over corner of 11th and North-st. All operations nrst-class and warranted. 0 1H1CA40 HA It BE K MHOl! HENRV WOODS, Pbop'r. ETEvcrythini; in firbt. class style. Also keep the beot of cigars. 516-y vrcAIJJMTEB BROS., A TTOMNEYS A T LA W, Oflice up-stairs in McAllister's build ing. 11th St. W. A. McAllister, Notary Public. .1. M. MACKAKI.AM, Atttsi; isdHr-ory Paai:. B. It. COWDKKV. C:lle:::r. LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE OK MACPA.RLAND & COWDBRY, Columbus, : : : Nebraska: T? II. K I SCII K, llth St., nearly opp. Gluck's store, Sell Harness, Saddles, Collars, "Whips, iilanketf, Curry Combs, Brushes, etc., at the lowest possible prices. Repairs promptly attended to. BY ICON MILLKTT, Justice of the Peace and Notary Public. VKU JllLI.K'rX, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Columbus Nebraska. N. ii. He ' will give close attention to all business entrusted to him. 248. T OU1S SCIIREIBER, BLACKSMITH AND WAGON MAKER. All kinds of repairing done' on short notice. Busies, Wagons, ttc, made to order, and all work guaranteed. aSTShop opposite the " Tattcrsall," Olive Street. 25 Tp J. NCIIUCi, .11. D., FUYSIC1AN AND SUBGEON, Coltiniljus, Nol. Office Nebraska Avenue, opposite the Clothcr House, three doors north of Bank, up-stairs. Consultation in Ger man and English. TA3LES PEARSALL IK I'KEI'AKKII, WITH FIRST - CLA SS A PPA RA T US, To remove houses at reasonable rates. Give him a call. N otice xo teachi;r. J. E. Moncrief, Co. Supt., Will be in his office at the Court House on the first Saturday of each month for the purpose of examining applicants for teacher's certificates, and for the transactton of any other business pertaining to schools. $o"7-y WILLIAM RYAN, DEALER IN . KENTUCKY WHISKIES Wines, Ales; Cigars .and Tobacco. 3TSchilz's Milwaukee Beer constant ly on band.ffB Eleventh St., Columbus. Neb. D R. CARL. SCHOTTE, VETERINARY SURGEON. ,- i Speaks German, English and Scandj-. uavian. "" "-it. Office at Dowty. Weaver & Co's-tlrug store. Columbus, Nebraska. Drs. MITCHELL & MABTYH, colu.hbun UEDiCAt & :mn mm, Surgeons O., N. C B. H. B. i?., Assi. Surgeons U. P. Ry, S" COLUMBUS; NEBRASKA. JS. "MURDOUK & SON, , ?. Carpenters and Contractors" Have had an extendetl experience, and will guarantee satisfaction in work. All kinds of repairing done on short notice. Our motto is, Good work and fair prices. Call and give us an oppor tunity toestimate foryou. t3TShopo 13th St., one door west of FriedhoP fc Co's. store, Columbus. Nebr. 4-f-y COLIJ9IBVN Restaurant and. Saloon! E. D. SHEEHAN, Proprietor. j5T"WholesaIc ind Retail Dealer in For eign Wines, Liquors and vCigars,. Dub lin Stout, Scotch. :indfxEglish Ales.,, S3" Kentucky Whiskies' d Speciklty. f OYSTERS in their season, by the case can or dish. llth Street. Soatk of Depot. LAW, REAL ESTATE AND GENERAL COLLECTION OFFICE, B V W.S.GEEE. "I fONEY TO LOAN in small lots on 1VL farm property, time one to three years. Farms with some improVrme'ntS' bought and sold. Office frirftliejpreserit at the Clother House. Columbus, iSebJ"? 473-x o. v - ' F. SCHECK, Manufacturer and Dealer in CIGARS AND TOBACCO. ALL KINDS OF SMOKING ARTICLES. Store on Olive St., near the old Pott-ojfice Columbus Nebraska. Ul-ly j AlWEETISEJCEITS. MILLffiERY! MUMBY! Mrs. M. S.Drake HAS JUST -RECEIVED A LAJUJE STOCK OF MPB1KCS a.m sunnER MILLIIERY AN FAICY GOODS. 13- A FULL ASSORTMENT OF EV ERYTHING BELONGING TO A FIRST-CLASS MILLIN ERY STOItE.I Nebraska Avenue, tico doors north of the State Bank. 27-tf BECKER & WELCH, PROPRIETORS OF SHELL CEEEE HILLS. MANUFACTURERS AND WnoLE SALE DEALERS IN FLOUR AND HEAL. 'OFFrCE. COLUMBUS. NEB -Dr.- A. HEINTZ, i PBALER IN MS, MEDICIIES. CHEMICALS. WMES LIQUORS,. Fine Soaps, Brushes, PERFUMERY, Etc., Etc., And all articles usually kept on hand by Druggists. Physicians Prescriptions Carefully Compounded. Eleventh street, near Foundry. COLUMBUS. ; NEBRASKA. SPEICE & NORTH, General Agents for the Sale of REAL ESTATE. Union Pacific, and Midland Pacific R. R. Lands for sale at from $3.00 to $10.00 per acre for cash, or on five or ten years time, in annual 'payments to suit pur chasers. We have also a large and choice lot of other lands, improved and unimproved, for sale at low price and on reasonable terms. Also business and residence lots in the city. Wc keep a complete abstract of title to all real es tate in riatte County. G33 COI.IMBUS, KEB. WHOLESALE & RETAIL G-KOOEES! ALSO DEALKKd IN Cipckery, Glassware, Lamps, Etc.. . and Conntrv Produce of all Kinds. THE REST OF FI,OIJR A!. WAY KEPT4M IIAKD. IB FOR THE LEAST MONET tTAicmls "delivered free of charge to 3tty partof the citv. -Tcrmsxash. i f r J Comer. Eleventh' and. Oh've Streets, - .' ColumbVs, 2feb:-. -j - . WM.; BECKER DEAI.KK IN ALL KINDS OF . FAMILY GROCERIES! i " - f vEEP C)STANTLY ON aiAND A WELLiSELECTED sroCK. ' "3 il - ; " t ' ' I J Teas, Coffees, Sugar, Syrups, Dried and ,CanrterJ Fruits, and other Staples a Specialty. Goods IeIlTcred Free lo amy part of the Cityr I AM AL80"AOENT 'KORTHK CEL EBRATED nflOTTTT.T. A WTI ?(IHA W if !? P.H rarmanirpqnng uagons, of AfhichMkecp a'constaut'snpplrtjn hand, but few their equal. In style" and quality, second to none. CALL AND LEARN PRICES. Cor. Thirteenth and JC Streets, near A.&X.Dejwt. m GOOD!) DEATH. Aero h shadow standing by tho crodl Where s lee path matfly a belor.Hl child: k waltcth anxiouat the gayen feastinjr. And mocks our laughter with Ita laughter wild; It standetb br our bedside, by our table. And with its touch tjio present is denied. a m It Jeers ourfaint attempts to be fonretful. Slanting its Ueshless body at the dance: Joins all our pleasures, Bhudinff them with promise Thafsooa its claims it will in truth advance; We dare it for awhile! then pray in anirulsh That it will haste to throw its poisoned lance. And yet it doth dercr its blow. Ah! suTOly Those have the best that follow it thctlrst. Bo shall they never.sco. their dearest parish. Going one's self i surelv nor tho'wor.-t; 'Tis those who live beyond their best and dearest Who really feel that death's a thintfaccursed. AH Vic Year Hound. THE BLUE SATIN BOOTS. There was a church fair and festival, on band, at Wajncville; and all the young ladies were in a state of feminine flutter. -Pretty, brown-e3od Jenny Carson had one of the fancy tables. She had also a new dress for the occasion. The soft, shining folds of dark-blue silk were draped over the bed, and Jenny was kneeling upon the lloor. and arranging (be loops of satin ribbon to her-taste, when Miss Bell Porey; who was Jenny's most intimate friend, burst into 'the room, "Oh; what a pretty dres, Jenny! YouMl look ravishing in it You only need a pair of blue satin boots, to match it; and then you'll be the best dressed girl at the festival." 'Bat satin boots are very expen sive," said Jenny, hesitatingly. "Oh, well, yes somewhat. But, there's nothing sets off a. lady's ap- eearance like nice shoes and gloves. I eard Doctor Chester say he never con sidered a lady well dressed, if she wore ill-fitting boots or gloves." And Miss Bell complacently crossed her own pretty French kids, while Jenny nerv ously put away the .pretty silk. What Doctor Chester said was be ginning to be a mattor of some moment to Jenny Carson. She was conscious of a longing for the blue boots; but, alas! they were too expensive for her. Miss Bell presently took her leave; and Jenny, with half her pleasure spoiled, went on with her preparations. "Well, daughter," said her father, at the dinner-table; " do you need any fal lals, for your frolic, to-morrow?" " Yes. I do need some new shoes, and some gloves," said Jenny. "You do. eh? Well, what must I give vou, to buy them with? ' "Whatever you can spare. paDa." . "Well, here's ,a ton-dollar "bill. I guess that will be enough. Get agood, sensible pairof 'shoes, now: something to keep you'' warm ' this cold weather, and no Himsy things." "Yes. sir." Thank you, papa. I'll do the best I can," says Miss Jenny. But she blushed; for, in her heart, she felt very guilty. However, she did mean to buy a pair of warm kid boots, for evorj-day wear. She hoped to get the blue ones for about four dollars, which would leave her enough for the others, and for the gloves. But. when she .stood in Turner's store and asked the price of the daint, shiny things offered her, the clerk promptly answered: "Seven dollars. Miss Carson." " Oh, dear! I was in hopes they were cheap," frankly confessed Jenny, lay ing down the boots. "Indeed they are cheap." said Mr. Wheeler. I assure you. Miss Carson, we have sold these right along at eight dollars. This is the last pair, so we offer them for less. They're very fine." "Yes," admitted Jenny. "Nothing sets off a dainty foot like a pair of these fairy-like boots," pursued the wily, clerk, with an eye for his trade. " Very few young ladies could wear so small a shoe just your size, yon see, Miss Carson." Poor Jenny sighed: thought of the thick, warm boots she ought to have; cast a longing look at the blue beauties; recalled what Dr. Chester said; and sillylittle puss! foronce let her vanity run away with 'her reason. "I'll take them," she said. After the boots were paid for, there was bare ly enough left to buy her gloves, and a ribbon or two. The next day, the great one, was clear and cold, with a sharp wind. Overshoes would ruin the dainty, satin boots; but, luckily for Jenny, -the ground was dry. But, ,it was frozen hard, and when she reached the gaily- decorated room of the new church, her feet were like ice. Jenny presided at one of the fancy tables. She made a lovely picture, in the beautiful blue silk; her throat and wrists shaded with softest lace; and the dainty, bine boots, fluttering in and out, below the plaiting of her skirt. Bell Dorsey was ilready at her post; ani, as Jenny came up, she opened her eyes wide, and exclaimed: "Oh, my! You blue angel! Did you drop from the clouds?" ' ,. Jenny laughed; and happening, .just then, to catch a glance from Dr.- Ches ter, who stood near, blushed, with Eleasure. while the gentle heart in her osom throbbed tumultuously. Jenny hud a very busy "day of it. There was much buying and "selling, and Jenn3''s table was very popular. Bnt, as the new church was large, and not yet finished, it was not very warm. The girls at the table were chilly all day, and by the time evening came, Jenny's feet were so numb and cold, that she could hardly stand. A hot supper, however, had been prepared at the hotel just across the street. Dr. Chester waited on Jenny at the table. Glad enongh was she to get something warm and De near a fire. But, Dr, Chester, though kind and polite, was not what he had been. He seemed. strangely cold and distant; and Jenny felt as if her bright day was spoiled. But. girls know how to hide these things, and Jenny was the gayest of the gay. She had to return to her stall again immediately after supper; and, oh! how sharply the cold struck her as shestepped out into the night. Dr. Chester left her at the door of a small room, designed fur a -vestry; butr now used by the v ladies as a dressing room. . Jenny ran in to put off her wraps; but, while "doing this, heard her name spoken in the narrow passage without. "It's all settled, I suppose, Doc, be tween you and Miss Carson;" was what she heard. "No, Fred.," I've .seen the folly of that to-day.-" The tones which an swered were the well-known tones of J)r. Chester. ."You astonish mel" replied Fred. r " t don't mind giving you the reason. Fred," said the doctor.. ."Just look at that young lady's feet .and you will have it. In spite of this cold day, she wears nothing bnt a flimsy pairo'f blue silk shoes, ihdve more thaji fancied Miss Carson;' I don't deny it But, yon will see, at once, that a giri. who can so utterly .sacrifice her reason to her vanity, is not the wife for a poor, strug gling doctor, with his fortune yet to make. But, enough of this. Let's go in. It's chilly here." Poor Jenny! Fortunately, there was no one in the dressing-room but her self. She flew to the furthest end, and hid her.burniug face on a pile of cloaks. But, after a brief struggle, she rallied. It would never do to cry. It would never do to go to her table with red eyos. It w:is a very erect, lirni mouthed, little lady, who walkcdto her table, presently; and the heels of the pretty blue boots came down upon the floor, with a sharp, resolute little click: for Miss Jenny had made up her mind to do something-very odd. : I am a little "fool" she said to her self; "but I don't quite deserve to lose a good man's opinion; and 1 won't either, if 1 can help it." 'It was late, before she was ready to go home. Just as she was about to start, Doctor Chester, who was her escort, handed her a pair of overshoes, r , ..7.. . A. I " ma m? any mg, quieny, as u lt were a manor oi course: "Miss Jenny, please put these on. It is too cold a night for such thin shoes, as I see you wear." i Poor Jenny! Her face was scarlet I with mortification.' She made out to utter a confused "Thauk vou," and put on the offending overshoes, without another word. Then she took the doc tor's arm, and the- went out together. Jenny's heart was beating so fast, that it almost choked her. But she was ,as determined as ever. Before ten steps had been taken, she said: "Doctor Chester, do you think it right, to condemn a person, for a single fault?" "Certainly not." said the doctor, promptly. "Then, why do you condemn me?" "I don't understand you," said he. "I heard every word you said to Fred Soniers, to-nighr," rejoined Jen ny, quietly. , "Miss Jenny!" He stopped, startTed. "I did. I don't blame you, doiitor. T gave you reason to think me only a , vain, silly girl. But, 2l?aso hear my i defense; and how sorry and ashamed I I am, won't you?" And then Jenny made her penitent, little confession, ending with, "1 don't know what you think of mo, now; but, indeed" "I think you the dearest, bravest little girl in "the world; and 'tis I who am the fool," cried the doctor, ardent ly. And thenbut thea, I don't know, that outsiders, like you and I, reader, have an- business to listen. When Jenny got home, she took oft the blue boots, which had so nearly cost her a lover, and Hung them under her wardrobe, saying: "Lie there, you blue wretches! But, you've taught me a good lesson. I've 'done with you. I'll buy my wedding boots, before long; and they'll not be blue ones, oither." teteron's Maga zine. "Who Sold Dot Coat!" Yesterday morning a tall voung man -of twenty landed at the Union Depot with a bundle under his arm, and after threo or four minutes spent in getting his bearings he walked up Jetlerson avenue and turned into a clothing store. "Doyoti vish to try "on some coats and wests for a dollar?" asked the pro prietor, as he rushed from behind the counter. " No, 1 guess not. Do you deal on the square?" "Aly frent, dot Is exactly vhat I does. I vas so square dot I lose $3,000 last year. Can I sell you an oafercoat fop ten dollar?" No, I guess not. Here is an over coat that I bought of you four weeks ago." "Bought of me?" "Yes. I think you are tho man. When T got it home we found that it was moth-eaten. I can pick it to pieces in a dozen places." "Is' dot bossible! Und how much you .pay?" "Eight dollars." "My sthars! And vhat vou want now?" " I want my money back." "Vhell- vhell. My frent, J. am sorrv for you. You seem like an honest poy, and it vhas too bad." "Yes, it was a swindle, and I want my money baok." ' "Dear me, but I vish yoo vhas here yesterdav! " Let me oxplain to 3'ou. Yon bought dot coat four weeks ago?" " Yes, four weeks to day." 'yhell, 1 had sold oudt to my cousin Philip shust one day before. Philip ish not a square man."' " What have I got to do with Philip?" "Let me oxplain. In dree davs Philip makes assignment to my brudder Louis. Dot Louis is a leedie off. He would sheat your eye-teeth away from you." "Yes. but I haven't anything to do with Louis." " Let me oxplain. Louis kept dor place a week, und he gif a chattel mort gage to my fadder-law, and vhas bounced out" "I don't know any thing about that" "Let me oxplain. My fadder-law vhas took mit a tit and died, and he loaf dis blaee to my wife. My wife vhas gone to Europe for two years, and she leaf me as agent Now you see how it was. I cannot tell you who sold you dot coat. Maybe it vhas Philip, maybe Louis, maybe my fadder-law. " It couldn't haf been me, for 1 vhas in Shicago. If you leave dot coat I vhill write to my wife. She is square, shust like me. and maybe she writes back dot you can take a linen duster, and two white wests and call it all right" "Say, this is a sneaking swindle," exclaimed the young man. "Maybe it vhas. Philip vhas a. great liar." "I'll go to the police!" " Vhell, dot is all right: maybe der police vhill help me catch Louis. 1 shust found oudt last night dot he cut all der hind buttons off all der coats in der store before he left" " If you'll step out doors I'll mash you!' " Vhell, I like to oblige, but you see I vhas only agent for my wife." "WelLyouMl hear fronrmc again, and don't youjforget it!" .said the vic tim, aa he went out "I hope, so I hope so. I like to make it all right I vhas only agent for my wife, but I feel so square dot I take dot coat back for three dollars if you vhant to trade it out in paper col lars!" Detroit Free Press. Electricity is now employed in the rectification of inferior alcohol. The electricity aerated by a Voltaic bat tery and a dynamo-electric machine is passed through the alcohol so as to dis engage the superfluous hydrogen. By this means beet-root alcohol, which is usually very poor, can be made to yield 80 percent of spirits, equal to that ob tained from ttie best malt A California Stag R bery. At 5:30 o'clock yesterday morming, says the Stockton (Cal.) IniUvtnden a'3 the stage from Sonora to Milton was Hearing tho Garibaldi mino, ten milcr from Sonora, it wa3 stopped by four masked men, who stepped in front of the horses and commanded a halt The driver Mark Stringham, imme diately pulled up, as there was no other way. The chief of the masks then," without a word, but by simply waving his hand, assigned his men to their various stations. One took charge of the driver, two of them attended to the passengers and the chief held himself as a reserve for purposes of plunder. Everything being- thus arranged, the three passengers were ordered to dis mount, file to the rear and stand with hands" behind them "and with backs toward the stage. The driver asked if there wis anything of his they wanted. The chief said: "No: the drivers on this line are all fine fellows, and I would rather give them something than take anything from them." Just then a second thought seemed to strike the knight of the road, and he said, laughingly: "lguess Til search ou; you may have a revolver and might get mrd and try to use it." The driver was unarmed, hence he was not molested further. The rubbers then with a sledge ham mer broke open two of Wells, i-argo & Co.'s iron-bound chests and their iron safe and rifled them of their contents. The amount taken was not ascertained, but is thought to be heavy. Having finished the sates, the robbers turned their attention to the passen gers, who had been left standing as ordered out After seeing how much money each had they returned it to him. John Mundorf & Son, merchants of Sonora. had in the coach $500 in gold dust, which was in with their lunch and was I ing on the bottom of stage. This fell into the robbers' hands. They also took $-10 from young Mundorf, but on his asking them for some money to he'p h'm-go on, tho robber gave the 840 back. The young man had also a 8100 greenback on his person, which they overlooked. While all this was going on, Mr. Stringham, the driver, wus growing ini. patient and called out to the chief to hurry up, as he (the driver) did not w'sh to miss the Milton train. The chief said, "All right." He then asked what time it was. and was told 5:30. At this he said: "Go ahead, I'm through," shook hands with the driver, wished the passengers a pleasant good morning, and. with a "ta ta," skipped with the balance into the woods' and disappeared. When the stage reached Milton, Sheriff Thorn was there. Ho found the third passenger to be bookod for Marysville,with a through ticket from Sonora. This man he soon persuaded to accompany him back to the scene of the robbery, and the two started at once with fleet horses, and tho Sheriff said he should commence pursuit n". once. At last accounts none of the rob bers had been arrested. The First Impression. Mrs. Jbrie3 has a rich brother in Cali fornia who lately intimated to her that he would make her a visit, and the oth er night when Jones went home he found the house all in a commotion, and the brother expected by the even ing train, so he fixed himself up with a laudable desire to make a good first impression on tho rich brother-in-law whom he had never seen. "How does he look? ' he inquired of Mrs. J., as be stood at the hat-rack ad justing his side whiskers. "Real stylish," answered Mrs. J., whose idea of rich relatives were some what vague, " he will probably havo on a seal-skin ulster and a white felt hat with a broad rim all rich Californian's dress that way and he is very hand some; they always said at home that he favored me," concluded Mrs. Jones, modestly. "But he must have changed some in a dozen years," hazarded Jones. " Oh, he ha3 probably grown stouter and more portl) ; he was tall and slen der then, with lovely chestnut hair; we always said Sam was wasted on a farm, and so he was. He met with a banana bandanna." "Bonanza," suggested Jones. " Yes, it's some kind of a speculation the have in mines, but hurry or you'll be late; you'll know him by his resem blance to me." Jones went down to the depot, fouud he w:ts early, lounged around awhile and then went into the waiting room and sat down. Tho heat and the silence were so oppressive that soon he began to nod. and the next moment he was asleep. He was awakened by a hand on his shoulder. A little, roly-poly man with his neck tied up in a red wooleu com forter, and with features like those of a bronze statue puckered into a mass of wrinkles, held an old sachel tied up with twine in one hand, while with the other he shook the indignant Jones. "How de do!" he exclaimed briskly, "name Jones, eh?" Jones drew himself up haughtily, the blood of all the Joneses coursing in his veins, " Sir! my name is Jones, a you have do ibtless been informed, but you are a stranger to me, and I do not wish to know you" "Why, I'm" "Yes, you're a confidence man; but I live in the city, and am up to your little game. You can get some one else to ash your check. You see 1 am not to be duped!" "But I'm" "Certainly, certainly, they all are; been buying farming implements going out on the next train bank closed, etc, etc" " Will you lenime!" "No sir, I will not, and if you ad dress me again I'll call a policeman;" and Jones walked indignantly away and asked the ticket agent crossly when the train would be in. "Why it's in half an hour ago, and that old fellow over there with the carpet-bag was looking for you; says he is your wife's brother from Californy!" Poor Jones! It will take him the rest of the winter to smooth that little affair over and find out what first impressions amount to on rich relatives. Detroit Post and Tribune. An association of New England hotel and boarding-house keepers will endeavor to procure the passage of an act providing that, when a person at tempts to fraudulently evade the pay ment of a board bilf, he may be im prisoned at the rate of one month for svery three dollars of the indebted ness. . Chief Justice Gray, of Massachu setts, frequently makes his circuit through the State on horseback. He is & man of giant stature, measuring six teat four inches. At Sea in an Opou Boat. Yesterday there arrived on the ship Cochin seven survivors of the ship Mil ton, burned at sea December 23, and abandoned by the crew. The Milton was a Nova Scotia ship, bound from Newcastle to this port, loaded with coal. She had twenty-three persons on board. Fire was discovered in latitude two dc grces north, and longitude 110 degrees west. The crew worked hard for two days and nights at thet pumps to put out the fire, but without success. Olo Oleson, a Norwegian sailor, who had charge of tho boat-load, which was picked up, tells the following graphic story of the wreck: "We were divided into three boat-loads. The captain commanded one and had with him his wife and two children. The first mate had another, and the second mate was put in charge of tho gig with six men! We hovered about the burning ship fot several'days. It was on the day before Christmasthat we abandoned the Mil ton, and when Christmas morning cawued upon us there we were, twenty cue of us in three small boats, twelve hundred miles from land. We man aged U) take along with us a pretty good supply of bread, water, and canned meat". The other two boats were equally well supplied, and occasionally we w)uld cheer one another up with the chr.m es of a vessel heaving in sight aad takin us all on board, but we had to wait liny long days before that ho.ie was ealized, and God only knows whet! er it has been realized in the ca.e of tht ether boats or not. On Christ mas ii iv the long boat, containing the first mate and others, parted company from us. The captain's boat and oun kept together until the 2d of January, when, one night in astorm, welostsight of each other; nor did wo see anything of each othqr again. We had then been out over a week and our water and pro visions were becoming scarce. Seven men in seven days can make a big hole in a cask of water and what food you can put in a small boat, no matter how carefal' you may be to make them spin wit. Just about that time we came into a northeastern which sprung up and made things for a time very uncomfort able, as every moment we expected to be swamped by oneof those big waves that now and then swept over us, duck ing us all to the akin and half filling our fibat with water. We kept her afloat through it by bailing out as fast as the water came.in. " After about twenty hours the wind lulled, and we again tried to make ourselves- comfortable. We counted every mouthful and registered overy sip, but for all that our larder kept growing smaller and smaller every day. We'd take a reef in our belts regularly every morning, until we had more delicate waists than the most graceful maidens. Before those terrible twenty-three days were over we had all gone to head and feet. Both swelled up, and our waists only looked like a connecting link be tween the two. About the twentieth day things began to look desperate. Our bread and, what was -worse, our water had run out. All we had left were three small cans of pressed meat, which we had been hoarding up for the last tight pinch. Our legs were swollen, our tongues and lips parched and swollen also, and this was' only made worse by drinking salt water. Oh, my God! It is terrible to dio with thirst and see water all around you. I don't wonder that sailors go mad when they drink it, for it is maddening to see it and know that to drink it is death. " We might have increased our stock of fresh water by catching the rain which fell during the first few days after we left the ship,, but the Captain, from his boat, told us not to do so that if we drank rain water it would kill us. " We were still, on the twenty-third day, far from land, and some of us began to think and look as. if we didn't care; but we were saved. It was Jan. 15, about 11 -SO on Sunday night, that we saw suddenly loom up in the distance what proved to be the head lights of a vessel. One of our fellows had a fog-horn, which, in n fit of des peration, he blew with all his might, in the vain hope of making them hear on board of her, but, biess you, the fellow hadn't" blow enough left in him to blow out a farthing glim. Williams struck a rar.tch and. lit a bit of lampwick which he had carefully preserved dry in his breast for such purpose, should occasion arise. The signal wa seen by those on board of the ship, the Captain hove to, and with all the strength left in us we hauled and pulled until we got along side. A ladder was let down and we were helped on board, where every care and attention was at once shown us by the Captain, officers and crew of the ship Cochin." San Francisco Chronicle. Corals and Coral Kccfs. Prof. Joseph Lc Conte, in a recent lecture on corals,- corrected a wide spread misunderstanding respecting corals and coral reefs. The popular idea ":, say3 M. Le Conte, that these animal- are little insects; that they build ike ants and bees do, and when they .re alarmed they disappear into their 1 -tic burrows, and these reefs are accuir lations of millions of these little insect in generation after generation. The ff t is the coral animal is a polyp, beln;. ng to the group of radiatia; that it con.- sis of limestone deposits in the shape fif a hollow-cylinder with top and bottom disks, surmounted with tenta cles, contnining a atom tch and envel oped with gelatinous organic matter. The tentacles or arms are provided each with a mouth for the absorption of food. The ctnal is coraline liu estone after the gelatinous organic envelope is decayed und rem ved. The animals which build reefs are not much larger than pin heads. Beef-building corals will not grow at a depth a! over 100 to 120 foot. Then? have been reef-building corals found at a depth of 1,000 feet, but they were dead drowned by being carried below their depth. This onfines them to eoat lines andsubm-trine banks. Corals will not grow where the temperature is lower than sixty-eight degrees at any time that is, the ocean, not the air. Therefore they are confined to the trop ical regions. They will not grow except in clear salt water; hence there 3 al ways a break in reefs opposite the mouth of a river. Finally, they demand free exposure to the beating "of the wave3. The more violently the waves beat, the more rapidly the orals grow, because the agitation gives them ventilation. Corals will grow in the face of waves whose beatings would gradually wear away a wall of granite. The four kinds of coral reef found in the Pacific ocean are fringe reef-, birrier reefs, circular reefs, inclosing lagaons in the ocean, and small lagoonless coral islands. Christian Ailvocate. As a yonn man in Paris was de clared insane for wearing scarlet trous ers, the New York Commercial Adver tiser thinks yong ladies that wear dresses of the same hue should be ar rested for causing pink-eye. FACTS A5D FIGURES. A clothes-pin firm at Denmark, M. wW use 1,000 cords of birch next ybafi Lewiston. Me., manufactures 1,500, 000 bobbins valued at $100,000, every year. A wire 400 feet long can be mad from one grain of silver. Such a wirs is finer than human hair. Microscopic investigation discloses 192 different living organisms fn lha water drawn from a hydrant in Cleve land. It is calculated that 5,000,000,000 of gold and silver have been extracted from the earth since the discovery of gold mines in California. Recently there was cut out of one log at Orange, Texas, lifty-niue ties, containing 1,888 feet, and 787 feet of boxing, making a total of 2,075'feet, all heart In Holvoke, Mass., are twenty-five mills, with:Su000,000 capital, and emi ploying 3.500 men engaged in making writing paper. Their product is 150 tons a day, more than one-half of. the entire American production of writimj papers. A patent recently granted in Vienna and Berlin uses b:uids of steel, which is tempered and hardened, to transmit motion from one pulley to the other, the f:ices of the pulleys Ix'ing turned per fectly flat anil then faced with a varnish of rosin, shellac and asphalt. The number of varieties of insects is vastly greater than that oL all other Hying' ureatureti. The oak supports 450 species of insects, and '200 are found in the pine. Humboldt, in 184L, caculated that between 150,000 and 170.000 speci mens were preserved in collections, but recent estimates place the present num ber at about 750,000 species. In a recent article in the Contempo rary Bcvieio, Dr. M. G. Mulhall givea some interesting facts regarding the average wealth of the British people.' He estimates that since 18G0 the British people have built 1,500,000 new houses. have rebuilt or replaced 800,000 old ones; and are 50 per cent, better lodged than in 1800. The average reut of each house is Vo per annum in London, l5!n'the rest of England, nearly 15 in Scotland, and a little under 4 in Ireland. He finds that each inhabitant was worth 180 in I860, nenrlv 220 in 1870. and about 25d in 188()! The ratio of pau pers was -1 per cent in 1870, and 3 per. cent in 1880. The hard, black German slate pencil has been superseded of late years by the round -whiti; pencil of clay slate. At tho, quarry near Castleton, Vl , about thirty five workmen produce 50.000 pencils daily, and it is proposed to increase- tho daily output to 100,000. The blocks when quarried are .sawed into pieces aeven by twelve inches, split to a thick ness of a half inch and smoothed by a planer. The- block is ptissed under a semi-circular knife, and. after having been turned over, the process is repeat-' ed. The result is 50 7-inch pencils. A" particle of quartz in the block would break all the pencils. They are poiuted by a grindstone, turned, assorted, and1 sent to market in boxes of a hundred;' - WIT AND WISDOM. . It is exceedingly unkind to tell a man who has just recovered fromia! severe case of small-pox tliat he should go to a joiner and have h& face planed. Andrews' Queen. There are three prominent phases oil a woman's life ah visibly connected. .As, a baby, she's lugged. As a young woni an, she's hugged. As a " wife, shb's humbugged. Western Waif. ..' The " sweetest thing" in a seal-skinr. sacque we have seen this season, was, about eighteen years old, just the bright est, prettiest--but, we are growingaged and rheumaticy. New Hacen Register.- " Figure on that!" said an iudignaut; father, knocking an arithmetician down for beating his son. " It's too sum maryP' said the arithmetician, :us hi? got up and ran off. I'uladclphut Sun. Matrimony is a lottery in which? every one expects to draw a prize. The disappointment of the innumerable earn-' van that moves to the pale realms of shade does not. however, t'.-umt the in-, experienced. They are a ready to take chances as if the lists had just been1 opened. Boston Courier. A London editor has bought- a Duke's castle, and paid $1,000,000 for it There are very few editors in this country buying million dollar castles' this year, we notice. We haven't . bought one for ten vears and more. Five hundred thousand dollar mansions without a mortgage are good enough! for American editors. Norristown Ihr-t all. Yesterday a colored drayman had considerable trouble with hH mule. The old man w:us standing on the sidewalk? engaged in a religious discussion with af preacher. The mule kicked at a boy. "Whoa, dar," yelled the owner. "Ain't yer got no mo sense den ter pick a iuss wid a chile? Dat mule is awful brig- . gerty ob late." Turning and taking up'" the "thread of, discourse, he was again ' disturbed by the animal- " Keep on." lie yelled. ""Time I add off two years , obcorn from yer feed yer won't be so skilarkish." Trsa Siflings. Can vou See the Ink Bottle on the Table? It is Full of Nice Black Ink. H you Want to. you can Pour the Ink out on the Carpet. It makes the Carpet look Black, too, does it no'.? Sit down ' on the Carpet and Put both of your Lit tle paddles in the Ink. iiee, your Fin gers are covered with the Ink! What a ' NicP picture you can Make on the Wall " Paper now. Make :. Picture of a Big f Man and a Little Girl. Do you want to j Put Some ink on the Lace Curtain? Very well. Put it on Carefully, for you Should never Waste the Ink or anything Else. This will be Quite a Surprise tb Mamma when he Comes in. Denver. Tribune Primer. A Remarkable Ilea. Joe Grimes, a well-known citizen of j Hardin County, near Stcphensburg, told a t'ommcri'ial reporter yesterday' that he had on his place a common dung- hill hen which was twelve years old, and'1 that she had laid an egg every day ex cept about two months of each year since her first and that during those" t wo months she had raised an average of twenty-live chickens per annum. ShV, sings as cheerfully now, and cackles aa loudly while at her work as she dicf eleven years ago, when she first began the discharge of her important dutiesyi At tliis rate thi-. hen, at eleven years must have laid 3,:55 eggs, which, at fifteen cents a dozen, would hav brought $:W.45. and would have raise4o 275 chicks, which, at $3 per dozen, would have brought 68.75, making 'a total of $108.20, from which take $2 per 1 annum for keep, or say $24. and then lo left as clear profit $34.20. Who oh beat this? Joe Grimes can be Toncfccl a above. Louisville CotnmerciaL 1 1 1 1 t 1 j 54 M