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I&bLFl) KVJL11Y XVKllNKSHAY,
jI. K. TURNER fc CO.,
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VOL. XIIL-NO. 5.
COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY, MAY 81, 1882.
WHOLE NO. 629.
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CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION.
C. H. VasW vth. L. S. Senator, Neb
raxka Citx.
Alvin iAi'XiKit!,lT. S. senator, Oniaba.
K. K. Valkmisk, Kei.. West Point.
T.J. MAJoitb, I'oiituiKfiit Kep., Peru.
STATfc DIKKCTOKY:
Alijixus Nanck, ("ovenior, Lincoln.
S. .1. Alexander, .Secretary of State.
Jobn 'allii-h, Auditor, Lincoln,
t". M. ittrilelt, I're iurer, Lincoln.
r..l. Di'.v itli. ttr ley-'Seneral.
W. V. AV J.ne, Sunt. Public liis'.ruc.
C. .1. N'tl--. V ir-l.Mi .i" Penitentiary.
V.W. Abbey, , j,,.,,,, is,,eclor.s.
r. II. iniiii. '
.J.O. Carter, Prison Phvsieian.
15. P. M.itbev,oii,uil. Insane Asylum.
.iril lAltY:
(ieorjje il. !.-ike.l A,K.j.ltt. Judges.
S. Maxwell. I'hief Justice.
loriun .njinrii. insTincr.
;. W. Po-;,.liuIe. , ork.
M. It. liee-e, Iitriet Atlornex, Wahoo.
( . A. Nuxxmau. t'lerk.
land offickk-:
M. H. Hie. i:e:Nter,Oraiid I-land.
Win. Anjnii. K.-ci-iver. Cratid Island.
I,!:(;II..TIVK:
Slat- Sn:iior. M K. Tinner.
" i:i-pi.-i-iii:.Jii-. 5. W. Lehman.
Corvi'Y MKKCTOUY:
.1. (J. Hii -rin-. fount .liiilirr.
J0I111 Si-nnler. ..untx 'l-ik.
.1. K.irlx. Tr- a-urei.
I. '. Kivaniii'li. berili.
1.. J ': in-r. Survrx or.
M. 3Iahr. )
Joejib K.'vet. r County ('nimui 'icners.
II. J Iltid-on, t
Ir. A . lifititc. oroner.
J. VI. MiMITJ.f lllt.'f School.
Kyn... Millett. J .,.,!, ...ofthoPear...
X . .XI. tiriicnu.
CITY DIUKi'TOKY:
.1. It. .M.vi-rh r. Mavor.
A. i:. I'o.lVotb. Clerk.
.1 1: !i'L.,tiu. Trci-iinT.
W. V. Ii.i.... Piiiicv Jndc.
J. I. N'ortb. 1'iii'ineer.
xciuirx:
st Ward .lob 11 Itickly.
(1. A. S-h metier.
if JlVnZ-Pat. II:u-..
I. (thick.
If '-.!. i:i-mu-.Mi.
A. A. Smith.
4'o?u tiiltt. V.l 01Hm.
('(Kiion 11:1 i-i -. ironi 11 a.m. tfliM.
and from :';i t r. i. m. Ii;i-imss
limit's except Sunilax ( x.M.toS i M.
KiMern m.uN cl.i-e at 11 a.m.
Vetcru mniN clop at :t" i..m.
Mail loax.-. Cohnnl'tl- fir I.ot Creek.
(Jenoa. t. Kdxx :inl. Albion. Platte
enter. II tiiiiphri-x , Madion and Nor
lolk, eery flay 1 except Sundays) at
-J:::."i p. 111. Arrieai li:.Vi.
For Sin II Creek and -Croton, on Mon
days and Friila-, 7 a. M., returning
at 7 r. M . -am- d : -.
For Alei. Patron and Pax id City,
Tuci!ax". Thur-.d x- and S:itiirl:iy -,
1 r. i Arrive- -it li xi.
For ( ..nklin- Tiiodax- and Saturday
7 !. in. Arrix ' p. in. -aine flax- .
KtlSflrtilil Jtoutnl.
Kiuiirraiit, N., letxe- at
Pa ciii'r, t,
Frei'.'ht. "
Freight, " l. 4 "
l'e.it i"nrJ .
Freight, N. "., Icive- at
PaeiiL''r, .!. "
Freiubt. ' ', "
Kuii'iant. ' 7. " "
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in.
111.
m.
m.
111.
in.
111.
111.
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11:im; a.
i:1.1 p.
i:'M a.
i:0U p.
:i7 p.
r.:Mi p.
l::.u a.
Kverv dax except Salurdax' the tb
line- leadiiiL to Chicairo eoniiect xv
P P. train- at Omaha. On Saturil:
there xill b but one train a day,
-hoxx'ii by the fnllowhu' -chedulc:
ith
a-
O.. X. .V P.. II. ItOAP.
Time Schedule No. I. To lake etlect
June i. 'si. '.r the nxcriimeiit ami
inrormation of emplovees only. The
Company re-erxe- the riht to v:ir
therefroiii -it pb-a-ure. Traill- daily,
Slllld'lX - eepleil.
Oufininl iSiitunl.
littctfrit Jlminil.
Norfolk 7:i( a. M.
Mini-oil 7:17
M:idi-tm .S:i; '
lluuiphrex-!':ai "
PI. Centre 0: IS '
Lo-tCreeklt.0!l 4
Colunibu-lU:.V "
Coliimbii- !::5-"t !. m.
l.o-t':-eek ."i:il "
PI. Cent it ."t:ti "
llumpbiei;-i.'i '
Maili-011 7:l "
Miin-011 7:1." '
Xorfidk :o
AI.IUO.V ins XNCII.
Columbu- l:l"ir. xi. .Albion
7:i:: A.M.
I.o-t Creek.!:::! '
(Jenoa r:I '
ht.lMxxarl7:lK
Albion ' 7:17 "
! St. KilvanlS::
(Jenoa !:14 "
1 I.o-tCieekih.V.I 4k
Columhu-10:4."i '
!'.. A- M. TIM I" TAP.LK.
Leave- Columbu-, ... " :4" a. M.
ltclIxoii ::W
li-ivid City, . ... 7.iU "
Carri-on, 7:U" 44
llx e-. ... s:i.i
St:iplebur-l, . . s:."r' 4
Seward "':."'.' "
Kiil.v '':."0 44
Milford. .. . 10:1" "
" Pir.i-r.nt Pale, . . lo:l."i "
Kiueia.l. .... M:I '4
Arrive-at Linioln. Il:rt m.
Leave- Lincoln at ti:."iO v. m. and arrive-
in t'olii!ii!u- 7:01b'. m.
Mike- clo-e ioiiiii'tiou at Lincoln for
all point- a-t. xxe-t and -outh.
H. I.TJERS & CO..
BLACKSaLTTIIS
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Arno;oii I-lnildcis,
Itr'.ck Miiiji iimim!' !l'tntz Urus Storr.
ALL KINDS OF WOOD AND IRON WORK ON
WAGONS AND BUGGIES DONE
ON SHORT NOTICE.
Eleventh Stnet, Columlus. Nebraska.
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NEBRASKA HOUSE,
S. J. MARMOY, Prop'r.
Nebraska Ave, South of Depot,
COIJMIH'S. "ii:.
A nexv house, nexvly furnished. Good
accommodation. Board by day or
xveek at reasonable rates.
ZSTfietti a Fir.i.ClaM Table.
Meals, ... i-'i Cts. I Lodgings 2o Cts.
3-2tf
COLU.1IBVN
Restaurant and Saloon!
E. D. SHEEHAX, Proprietor.
J2" Wholes ale nnd Retail Dealer in For
eiirn "Wines, Liquors and Cijrars, Dub
lin Stout, Scotch and English Ales.
VSTKentucky MTiiskies a Specialty.
OYSTERS in their season, by the case
can or dish.
lltk Street, Semtfc ef Depat.
BUSINESS CABDS.
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It. OARI. StllOTTE,
VETERINARY SURGEON.
Ollice at Doxvtv. Weaver & Co's store.
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.li:KM. Ac ItOK,
P.AXKEUS, Collection, Insurance and
Loan Asrents, Foreign Exchange and Pas
sage Tickets a specialty.
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OKrVKI'llX V Mlk.I.IVAiA,
ATT01tKEYS-A'l-LA W,
Up-stairs in tiluck Building, lltb street,
Above the Xexv bank.
H,
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XOTAJiY PUBLIC,
12th Mrrel, 2 Joont nest or Hammond llonne,
Columbus. Xeb. 401-y
I -vIC. .11. I. THIIKSTO.,
It ESI DENT DENTIST.
Ollice over comer of lltb and Xorth-st.
All operations tirst-class and xvarranted.
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illlCAUO UAKKKIC MII1!
HEX BY AVOOPS. Puor'K.
1ST Everx thing in first -class style.
A l-o keep the bent of cigar.-. filU-y
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( i:e:k & icii:ii:ic,
ATTOJtNEYS A T LA W,
Ollice n Olive St.. Columbus, Xebra-ka.
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J ', JiVIIKS, .VI. !.,
11 OMEOl'A Till C I'll YS1 CIA X.
Will attend to all calls night and
dax. .
Ollice xv ith O. F. Merrill, east of A A: X
Depot. ."i:imo
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-AI.I.INTI-:iC ItltON.,
a TTon key's a t la w,
Ollice up-stair in McAllister's build
ing, lltb St. W. A. McAllister, Notary
Public.
.1. M. MACl'AKI.ANH. . K. C'OXX DICKY,
A:tcr;e7 a:i Itetar? TzY.'i. Colic:::?.
LAW AMI COLLECTION OFFICE
or
MACI ARIjAND & COWDBRST,
Columbus, : : : Xehrnska.
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SSJTxx-elltht st., live doors xvest of the
Ilamiuond ."ii-tf
I- II. KIMlli;
llth St., nearly opp. Gluck's store,
Sell- llarnc.--. Saddles, Collars "Whips,
lllaukets. Curry Comb-, Brushes, etc.,
at the loxxest possible price.-, llepair.
promptly attended to.
II r HON at ILLICIT,
.liislicL'oflhe Peace and
Notary Public.
BVKOK .11 1 1. 1. KIT,
ATTOBNEY AT LAW, Columbus
Nebraska. X. It. Ho will gixe
clo-e attention to all business entrusted
.o him. iJS.
T OU1S SCHKE1BEB,
BLACKSMITH AND WAGON MAKER.
All kinds of repairing done on short
notice. Buggies, Wagons, etc., made to
order, and all work guaranteed.
JSTShop opposite the 4' Tattersall,"
Olive Street. i."i
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.u.i:ka wi:stoit,
ATTUK
C II ECK E II El) 11 A EX,
Are pn'pared to furui-h the public xv'th
gootl teams, bugiries and carriage- for all
occasions, especially for funerals. Also
conduct a feed and sale stable. 4!)
TAMES PEABSALL
IS l'RKrAKKIi, WITH
EI EST- CLASS APPARATUS,
To remove bouse at reasonable
rales. Give nim a call.
'Vtotici? to ti:a:iii:ics.
J. E. Moncrief, Co. Supt.,
Will be in bis ollice :.t the Court House
on the first Saturday of each
month for ihe purpose of examining
applicants for teacher'-' certiticates. and
for the tr:snactton of any other business
pertaiiiiui; to -chools. ."07-y
Am-x SAi.no,
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER.
Plans aud estimates supplied for either
frame or brick lniililiiiu'-. Good xvork
guaranteetl. Shop 011 l.'ith Street, near
St. Paul Lumber Yard, Columbus, Xebra-ka.
fi (Jmo.
WILLIAM RYAN,
DKALKi: IN
KENTUCKY WHISKIES
IPiiiM, Ales, Ciifars and Tobacco.
J2T"Schilz"s Milxvaukee Beer constant
ly on hand.,1
Elkvkxtii St., Columbus, Xkb.
Drs. MITCHELL & MAETYN,
toi.r.nmjs
MEDICAL & mm IHSTITDTE.
Su.-yeans O., X. t E. II. E. 11.,
Asst. uryeons U. F. E'y,
COLUMBUS,
NEBRASKA.
JS. MURDOCK & SON,
Carpenters and Contractors.
Have had an extended experience, and
will guarantee satisfaction in work.
All kinds of repairing done ou short
notice. Our motto is, Good xvork and
fair prices. Call and give us an oppor
tunitytoestimateforyou. jgrsbop o
13th St., one door west of Friedhof &
Co's. store, Columbu-. Nebr. 483-y
GOLD.;
Great chance to make
money. Those xvho al-
xvays take advantage
of the good chances for
making money that arc offered, general
ly become xvcalthy, xvhile those who do
not improve such chances remain in
poverty. We xvant many men, xvomen,
boys and girls to xvork for us right in
their oxvn localities. Any one can do
the xvork properly from the flrst start.
The business xvill pay more than ten
times ordinary xvajres. Expensive out
fit furnished free. No one who ngages
fails to make money rapidly. Tou can
devote your whole time to the work, or
nly your spare moments. Full infor
mation and all that is needed sent free
Address Stiksox Co., Portland 3Iaine.
ADVERTISEMENTS.
MILLINERY! MILLfflERY!
Mrs. M. S.Drake
HAS JUST RECEIVED A LARGE
STOCK OF
SPKI.C! Artl SILUJIKK
MILLIIEBY AID MY
T3T A FULL ASSORTMENT OF EV
ERYTHING BELONGING TO A
FIRST-CLASS MILLIN
ERY STORK.g5
Nebraska Avenue, tico doors t.orth of the
State Bank.
j;-tr
BECKER & WELCH,
PROPRIETORS OF
SHELL CEEEE MILLS.
MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLE
SALE DEALERS IN
FLOUR AND MEAL.
O F FfCE. COL UM 11 US. X E K
Dr. A. HEINTZ,.
DKALKK IN
Fine Soaps, Brushes,
PERFUMERY, Etc., Etc.,
And all articles usually kept ou hand by
Druggists.
Physicians Prescriptions Carefulhi
Compounded.
Eleventh street, near Foundry.
COLUMBUS, : NEBRASKA.
SPE1CE & NORTH,
General Agents for the Sale of
REAL ESTATE.
Union Pacific, and Midland Pacitic
R. R. Lauds for sale at from $.00 to $10.00
per acre for cash, or on lix'c or ten years
time, iu annual payments to suit" pur
chasers. We have also a large and
choice lot of other lands, improved and
unimproved, for sale at loxv price and
on reasonable terms. Also business and
residence lots in the city. We keep a
complete abstract of titleto all real es
tate in Platte County-
Wl
COL.IJJI RUN. AKR.
PILLSBtlRY'u BEST !
RUY THE
Patent Roller Proc ss
MINNESOTA
FLOUR!
ALWAYS GIVES SATISFACTION,
Recause it makes a superior article of
bread, aud is the cheapest-Hour
in the market.
Every sad; warrunlctl to run alike, or
money refunded.
HERMAN OEHLRICH & BRO.,
GROCERS.
1.3m
WM. BECKER,
DKALKK IX ALL KINDS OF
FAMILY GROCERIES!
I KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND A
WELL SELECTED STOCK.
Teas, Coffees, Sugar, Syrups,
Dried and Canned Fruits,
and other Staples a
Specialty.
Good Delivered Free to
part of the City.
anj
I AM ALSO AGENT FOR THE CEL
EBRATED COQTJTLLARD
Farm and Spring Wagons,
of which I keep a constant supply on
hand, but few their equal, in style and
quality, second to none.
CALL AMD LEARN PRICES.
Cor. Thirteenth and K Streets, near
A. & IT. Depot.
Our Young Readers.
BORN OX AX APRIL DAY.
The girl that is born on an April day
Has a rijrhtto ba merry, lightsome, pay;
And that is the reason 1 dance an J play
And frisk like a mote in a sunny ray
Wouldn't you
Do it, too.
If you had liccn born on an April day?
The girl that is born mi an April day
Has also u. right to cry, they say;
And so I sometimes do give way
When things get crooked or all astray
Wouldn't you
Do it, too,
If you had been bunion an April day?
The girts of March love noise and fray;
And sweet :is blossoms are girls of May;
But I belong to the time midway
And so 1 rejoice in a sunny spray
Of smiles aud tars and hap-a-day
Wouldn't you
D. it, too.
If you had been born on an April day?
Heigho! and hurrah! for an April day.
Its cloud, as sparkle, its skip and stay!
I mean to b.' happy xvhenever I may.
And cry when I must: for that's my way.
Wouldn't you
Do it, too.
If you had been born on an April day?
Mary Mapcx Dodijc, in St. XuholaM.
NAOMI AND THE BOG.
Many years ago. in a far-axx'ay vil
lage, there stood the strangest-looking
house you exer saw a one-story house,
rathersniall, very broad ou the grouud,
and sloping up to no breadth at all at
the top. And besides sloping up toxvard
the top, it curved toxvard each end.
And somehow the chimney looked as if
it had been built outside aud then
pushed doxvn through the roof, instead
of groxving up from xvithin in the ortho
dox xvay. The tipper part of the house
had once been green, and the lower part
had once been white If you had seen
it, you would certainly have cried out:
" Why, it looks just like a boat turned
upside doxvn." And in fact, that x'as
just what it xx'as a real boat that had
been tossed about on the waves all
through its youth; had carried out the
fishermen full of hope to their xvork on
the dim horizon, and had borne them
back merrily singing in the late e veiling.
And here it was in its old age, clear up
on dry land, with its chimney and win
dows and doors, trying to get oil' its
sea-legs so to speak and look like a
real, genuine house. But it had not
settled very far from the shore. All
around it xvere xvide sandy plains, with
here and there a growth of oak and pine;
and on a windy day you could hear the
beating of the xx-ax'es mingled with the
sighing of the pines.
One afternoon in the early spring
time, the little door stood open xvide.
What a pleasant little room to enter!
though, to be sure, it gix-es you a sort of
capsized' feeling to look up at the
keel overhead, and see the ribs curving
up to it from either side. A pretty,
quaint, cheerful, homelike room, for all
its rough table and chairs and lack of
ornament.
On this particular day, then, little Na
omi lame Naomi and lier father, were
having a very earnest conversation.
"Father, cried she, "you xvill surely be
back before to-morrow night. You know
the mollis might settle any night noxx-."
You don't knoxv what that means, do
you? Well, Naomi's father her mother
had been dead more than a year xvas
poor, very poor; but by great
caie and hard xvork he had saved
enough to lay out a little eranberry
bog, about a mile from their house,
right by the running brook. It costs a
good deal to lay out a bog to haul on
tins clean sand, to set the straight roxs
of vines. To watch their growth, too,
is a matter of no small moment, for in
the spring, just xvhen the vines are in
Mower, there come swarms of little flies
or moths, settling all oer the bog. and
kiviur their tinv esrffs in the heart of
every blossom: these eggs change to
worms later on, and spoil the berries.
Then is one xvay to cheat the little
creatures; for all' the bogs are made be
side running brooks, aud :is soon as the
moths appear the man xvho is watching
turns the course of the stream right in
to the bog, which is thus soon Hooded,
and the little mollis are drowned. Then
the brook is alloxx'ed to run on its old
channel, for the berries are sax-cd.
Now you knoxv what Naomi meant
xvhen she said the moths might come.
" Yes, child," her father said, " xve
could ill allbrd that loss. 1 shall only be
away during the day; never fear."
Early the next morning the father
plodded doxvn the footpath toxvard the
river, little Naomi hobbliug along beside
him with the aid of her crutch. In a
moment he was in the boat, paddling
slowly, first on one side, then on the
other.
4' Be sure to come home early, father,"
cried Naomi: and he had just time to
nod and smile, xvhen a bend iu the river
shut him out of si";ht.
W All day long Naomi sat by the door
way in her little rocking-chair one her
father had made for her sexing away
and singing axx-aj- just as happy as if she
had been a Princess.
To be sine &he xv:is very lame alxx-ays
had been; so lame that she xvas obliged
to sit still most of the time: "but then,"
said she, " no one has everything, and I
am so much better off than most folks."
At last it began to groxv dark just a
little so that Naomi could not see to
sew very well, and she laid her work by to
xx'atch the red clouds sailing by, and see
the young leaxes just rustling in the
faint puffs of air. Then it became dark
er and darker, and a little chilly, too;
so she shut the door, and stirred up the
embers on the hearth, and threw on
more xvood, so that the little room fairly
gloxved with light, and all the pans on
the xx'all Hashed like diamonds. Then
she drew out the table, and put on the
pretty red cover and the heavy crock
ery, and hung the kettle on the crane.
And the heart of the old boat must have
rejoiced at the warmth and light, xvhen
it remembered that it xvould never again
face the stormy sea.
44 Why doesn't father come?" thought
Naomi, as the hands of the clock mox-ed
slowly round. " Hoxv late he is!" anil
she pressed her face against the xx-indow
to tr' to get a glimpse of out-doors; but
it xx-as as dark as pitch outside.
44 Hark!" she said, suddenly; " there
he comes;" and xvide open she threxvthe
door. The steps drexv nearer and near
er, and in a moment two men burt into
the light streaming out from the door
way. She had been so much alone that she
was not afraid. So she called out:
44 Where are you iroing?"
44 We' re bound for the West Bog, to
let on the water."
44 Hax-e vou seen my father?"
44 No. lie ought to be up to flood his
bog 'fore long." Then they passed in
to the darkness again, and their steps
died away.
They were going to flood their bog,
then; they knew there xvas danger, Na
omi thought Oh, why didn't her father
come? What 'should she do? For a
moment only a moment she hesi
tated. Then" she hurried to the closet
and lighted the lantern, put on her
cloak, took her crutch, and only waiting
mm. inatant to listen once more for her
1 father3 steps, she hobbled and ran do wa
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thepath as best she might. On she
hurried, the crutch stumping, stumping
over the ground.
Oh. hoxv dark it was! How small and
alone she felt in this great black night!
Once a rabbit burst from the bushes
and scuttled across her xvay; time
and agjun she thought she saw men
crobehiug right "in her path; and once
she! almost fell to the ground xvhen close
to aer ear a loud voice cried out: "Tu
whit, tu whit, tu xvhoo!" But she xxas
a bfex-e little girl, and she kept right on.
But.she had nex'er xx'alked so fast or so
far,:and soon her foot began to pain her
at every step; "but she dreaded to stop
in all that darkness, so on she xx'ent.
Then all at ouce she came upon a littla
cottage with a dim light burning in a
f rout windoxv. She knocked.
44 What is it?" said a xvoman's voice.
44 Go away, or I'll set the big dog on ye,
and git out the gun, and call my litis
bantC and have you arrested! Yo'd bet
terjaave." Naomi laughed.
44 I'm only a little girl," she said. 4 Is
there a man here that could go up to the
bogs?"
44 Be you alone, young worasn?"
asked the voice; aiul Naomi thought she
saw the curtain drax-n aside a little.
"All alone."
4Sure? 'Cos, if you haven't come to
rob the house, I xx'on't take the trouble
to xvake up the three men and the dog
that's sleepin' in the next room, and git
down the gun." And the door xx'aa
opened a trille.
44 Why, you poor child!" cried the
xx'oman. "Well, well, how you did
frighten me! 1 thought some robbers
had come. I'm all alone. Come in."
So Naomi xx-ent in and sat down a
moment by the tire; saxv the cat dozing
on the hearth, and laughed to see theold
xx'oman jump every time a leaf rustled
outside. At last "she left her alone
again, and hurried along the lonesome
road. But suddenly she stops; here right
before her is a deep, broad brook, and
in the faint light of the lantern she sees
one narroxx', slippery plank to lead
across. Must she go back? Iu a mo
ment her plan x-:is laid. She raised her
crutch ami threxv it clear ox'er the brook;
and then, the lantern hanging on one
finger, she knelt doxvn on the narrow
dank, and grasping it with both hands,
egan to craxvl along. Every instant
she expected to fall into the dark xx-ater
xvhich she could just sec slipping slowly
along beloxx.
But at length the stream was crossed,
and on she hobbled again. She is al
most there noxx. Slie knows just
xvhere stands the gate across the b:"ook,
for her father has often brought her
here. She sees it there in the dark
ness, xvhere the brook boils aim loams
ami rushes through. Here it is at 1:ist.
While she unfastens the gate she sees a
lish or two dart into the light of the lan
tern for an instant and then, thud,
splash fell the gate and the water rose.
And then she fell over on the cold,
hard ground, and fainted away from
fright and pain.
Well, she axvoke in the little room in
the boat, and saxv her father looking
into the dancing fire. And she felt so
warm and comfortable that she did not
speak for a moment; and then she said:
44 Did it sax-e the berries, father?"
And how her father came and talked
to her, hoxv he praised her and blamed
her, and what they did with the money
they received for the cranberries, xvould
take too long to tell. But of all the
stories that Naomi tells her grand
children, the one the- like best is that
xvhich tells how the owl hooted, and
hoxv she eros-ed the bridge and sax'cd
the bor. Wide Awake.
The Mammoth in Northern Alaska.
These remains of the mammoth an
found on the banks of all the rivers o!
Siberia, even those farthest to the east
xvard. Lyell, in his geology, gives an
account of the discovery iu 1772, by
Pallas, of the entire carcass of a rhi
noceros imbedded in the sand on tho
Viliui. a branch of the Lena, scarcely
more than a hundred miles from the
city of Yakutsk. The flesh adhered to
the bones, though decaying, and the
skin xvas covered with hair aud xvool.
Pallas supposed from the wool and hair
that the animal might once have occu
pied the cold regions of Central Asia.
The veins still contained red blood, and
half-chewed pine leaves xx-ere found in
the cavities of his teeth. The bones of
the mammoth, according to Cuvier,
have been found at sex'eral places on
the American continent, mixed with the
bones of the mastodon, a huge ani
mal with long, straight tusks, a
specimen skull of xvhich may be seen in
Prof. Ward's collection. The Russian
Captain, Kotzebue, found them on the
northern coast of Alaska, xvhere they
xvere so common that the sailors used
them for fires. The naturalist accom
panying this expedition brought speci
mens of the tusks to Europe. Captain
Beechey, an English navigator xvho
visited the same region in 1826, stopping
at San Francisco on the way, also found
many of the remains along the Alaskan
coast. They had been deposited in
mud or sand, then frozen in, and having,
in process of time, been gradually
thawed out. had fallen from the solid
bergs of ice and mud, and xvere lying on
the shore, lex-el with the tide. Bones
of modern animals xvere associated vith
them. All of the remains of the mam
moth along the American, as xvell as the
Siberian coast, appear to have been
frozen in masses of thin mud or sand,
and- not of pure ice. Those along the
rivers of Siberia hax-e been usually found
in beds of sand, and not in the marshes
San Francisco Chronicle.
The Empress of Austria is said to
have determined to visit Canada next
Autumn for the purpose of hunting. It
is thought in Canada that the proposed
visit probably xvill settle the question of
the return of the Princess Louise in the
affirmative, and it is also said the Prince
of Wales xvill accompany his sister. One
part of the programme already projected
is a grand hunt, in xvhich deputations of
the minting clubs of Montreal, New
York, Philadelphia and Boston, xvill be
invited by the Manntis of Lome to take
part.
. When a burlesque company recent
ly played in Indianapolis the corps de
ballet x-;is recruited, as to the unimpor
tant back roxv, from resident young
women. A felloxv in the gallery recog
nized an acquaintance among them,
and cried out: " Hi, Sallie Jackson!"
She looked up in quick response, and
the hilarity of the audience drove her
from the stage. Chicwjo Utrald.
According to the telegrams, the flood
carried off a lot of distillery cattle. To
sax-e correspondents the trouble of
xvriting to us to know what kind' of
stock distillery cattle are; we say right
now, that xve do not knoxv, unless uia
tillcry cattle is a technical term far
corned beef. Texas Sijluuj.
rroeions Stones.
The .enstom-house people are uneasy
ox'er thft undoubted fact that a great
many precious stones are smuggleu in
to this port from Europe. It Is compar
atively easy to conceal them, and the
ten per cent duty exacted by the
Government makes it hard for many
morally xx'eak individuals to resist the
temptation to smuggle. The Goxern
nient officers have been axvaro of the
exil for a long time, aud have been
doing their best to stop it. lint the great
disparity betxx'i'en the volume of trade
in precious stones and the amount of
the goo.Ls declared at the vario.is custom
houses by importers shows that the Gox'
ernmentis defrauded of a large amount
of re.euue.
The p:ission for all sorts of fashionable
gems is rapidly increasing in this coun
try. The price asked for them is keep
ing pace with the demand, the ax'erage
increase , in, cost xvithiu. thepast txvo
veal's being from ten to txventy-live
per cent. The discox-ery of the African
diamond mines some six years ago
for a xvhile reduced the price of
diamonds, but the nriid growth of
demand, in the United States chiefly,
has restored the equilibrium of the
market. The trade are now asking
ten to lifteen per cent, more for dia
monds tha'i xv:n asked lifteen months
ago. New York deilers in gems have
had the most prosperous business of
their Hx'es within the pat year and a
half. It is a common thin ; in Nexv
York so'-iety to see "SIO.OOJ to $20,000
in diamonds on a lady's pr.-on. At the
fashionable entertainments ou Murray
hill, or at the balls and garden parties
at the xvatenng-places 111 s.iniiner. one
may literally see bushels of dia minds.
Nearly ever woman has big solitaires in
rings or ear-rings. The la-gc solitaire
diamond is not preferred to the cluster.
The gentlemen xvear fexv diamonds, and
they are likely to be mistaken for
gamblers if they xx-car sditaires. Tlwy
xv ar rings and studs of fan stones,
however, and. xvh'le ten year; ago they
xvere eschewed by American gentlemen
of taste, the out (it of a man of fashion now
is not perfect xx'ithout them. Sapphire,
rubies, the amethyst, topaz, the emerald,
cat's-eyes, and the aqua marine are the
stones iu most demand for gentlemen's
xxvar.
In the year 18S1 gems to the x-alue of
$3,3''2,511 passed through the custom
house, xvhich was nearly four times the
value of those imported in 1871. Deal
ers sax" that all the more valuable stones
i
are now seiiing at the rate of six to one j
as compired with 1871. New Y'ork is I
already one of the greatest markets for
reins in the xvorld. Manx- ueople here
xvear diamonds xvho, if living in Europe,
in the same social and tinaucial position,
would not think of such a thing. The
briskness of the Nexv Y'ork market
is naturally centering here all the in
dustries connected with preparing the
gems for the retail trade. Diamonds
are now largely imported in their natu
ral state. It is only six years since the
lirst diamond-cutler who xvas proficient
in his business began work here. Noxv
there are quite a number of these skilled
xx'orkmen in New York, and dealers as
sert that their xx-ork is superior to that
of either the Dutch, French, Greek or
English cutters and polishers. In proof
of this rather remarkable statement,
they say that European dealers have re
cently sent diamonds in the rough to
this country to be dressed. They claim
that a good many European-cut stones
are cut in a careless manner, and do not
compare favorably xvith the xork of
American xx'orkmen in polish and brill
iancy. It takes at le:ist four years to
learn the art of diamond cutting. The
diamonds are found in all.ivial deposits,
and are extracted by washing. Txx-o of
them are rubbed together until they re
ceive a shape in the rough. They are
linished by grinding on a revolving disk
of steel, xvhich is covered with oil and
diamond dust. Most diamonds are cut
iu the shape of brilliants, and some iu
the form of a rose, having a flat bottom
and an upper surface of liny facets, and
ending in a point. A first-class fork
man can cut and polish about five dia
monds a xx-eek. and his xx-ages range
from S 10 to $75. The great secret of
the trade lies in the knowledge of the
grade of stones and how to cut them to
make them commercially most x'aluable.
It is the easiest thing in the xvorld for a
workman to ruin a stone. A llaxv or a
scratch across its face deteriorates its
value fifty per cent
Perfect brilliants of the lirst xvater are
noxv selling in this market: One-half
carat diamonds, S17"; one carat S00O;
txvo carats, 800. Diamonds of a large
size bring xvhatever can be obtained
from the purchaser, as no fixed price is
stated. When a diamond is over five or
six carats it is not x-erx salable. An
importer iu John street has had txx-o
diamonds, each txventy carats, in the
market for year.-., and has been unable
to sell them. The largest gem ex'er cut
in this city was a forty carat diamond.
It was off color, hoxvever, and xvas
bought by a gambler. Sol it-lire ear
rings, txvo carats, are xx-orth from $1,200
t $1,500. are large enough to product
a striking effect, and many very
xvealthy people prefer them to large
diamonds, which they think look clum
sy. The largc-t anil most valuable dia
mond in America is said to hi owned by
a Maiden Lane dealer. It is valued at
$b0,000, xx-e'ghs fifty-live carats, is called
"The Pearl of India,' and is described
:ls a pure xvhite, cushion-shaped, double
cut brilliant.
Merchants here claim that the numer
ous imitation diamonds have never ma
terially injured their business. The
borus stones are only passable imita
tions under the glare of gas. Sunlight
readily exposes their real character.
Of course the xvhite translucent stone,
free from llaxv and perfectly cut, is the
most valuable. Yellow, broxvn and jet
black diamonds arc readily found in the
market, but pink diamonds are rare.
X. Y. Cor. Chicayo Tunes.
Scottish Marriage Law.
Some three weeks ago a case xvas re
ported of a novel irregular marriage
xvhich had been contracted in Glasgow
by txx-o young Irish people xvho had ap
plied to Sheriff Lees to have their uuion
duly registered. The name of the
bridegroom xvas Charles Black, a sea
man on board the steamer Cormoran,
of Glasgoxv, and that of the bride
BridgetiScott The Sheriff ordered the
girl to produce a certificate of her
birth, and, this" having been done, his
Lordship on Monday pronounced a de
liveranee, in xvhich he finds that the
couple contracted an irregular marriage
on the oOth ultimo, in a house at 1)2
Gloucester street; that the female peti
tioner lived in Scotland for txventy-one
days immediately preceding such" mar
riage. He therefore grants xvarrants in
terms of the act 19 and 20 Vic, cap. 96,
to the Registrar of Tradeston District to
enter the said marriage in the register
of marriages kept by him.
In a note the Sheriff says: "This is
an unsatisfactory case. The petitioners
seemed little more than children, bat
they say they are txventy and seventeen
years old respectively. Unable to get
married iu Ireland under txventy-one
without their parents' consent, they
have come to Scotland to ax-ail them
selves of the unfortunate laxity of laws
xvhich allows a boy of fourteen to marry
a girl of twelve, even against their par
ents' xvill. To form such a marriage ir
regularlv it is not necessary to come be
fore a Sheriff; and it is quite erroneous
to speak, as is otten done, of a Sheriff
mam ing peop'e. He cannot do so. No
one iu Scotland can. save a clergyman.
But xvhere parties instead of going be
fore a clergyman after proclamation of
bans or notice on the Begistrar's board
have contented themselves xvith declar
ing themselves man and wife in presence
of witnesses, they are entitled, under a
statute passed at the instigation of Lord
Brougham in 1856, to apply to tho Sher
iff of the county in xvhich the marriage
xx-as contracted for a warrant to have' it
registered. Such applications are not
uncommon. Last year there were
one hundred and forty-three made to
this court. By the Registration act of
1854 the supervision of the Registrar's
books xx-as imposed on the Sheriff; and,
though they hax-e subsequently been
relieved to some extent of this duty, no
correction of any entry and no entry
of any irregular marriage cau be
made without judi-ial sanction.
The petitioners, des'ro'is to get the
regular marriajre xxiiich$hex hax-e con-
OCT
traded put on the register, hax-e conse
quently mode the present application.
The question is, whether on the evidence
adduced by them, I am justified in
granting the xvarnint thev craved. No
tatute since I856 has further restricted
the indulgent Iaxitv of our laxv or ex
empted Irish people from its scope; and
the proof adduced xx-as sufficient on ev
ery point except the age of the parties.
In consequence 1 requested further
proof of the girl's age. This has now
been furnished. A fexv days ago the
girl's mother made affidavit in Dublin
that the girl is xvithin three months of
being tweuty-txvo years of age,
but that she had been unable
to get any such certificate at
St. Andrexx-'s Chapel, in Dublin,
xvhere she says the girl xvas baptized.
This is, perhaps, hardly matter for sur
prise, for the girl declares she is only
sex-enteen, and from her diminutix-e ap
pearance I greatly doubt if she is so
much. To make matters xvorse, the
boy's father has xxTitten to me saying
his j-on is eighteen and not txventy, that
he ami the girl are of ditlerent religions,
and urging me not to authorize the reg
istration of the marriage. It seems to
me deplorable that any encouragement
should be gix-en to such a union, but as
the proof in regard to the ages of the
applicants, though not so satisfactory as
could be wished, is yet not insufficient,
I have no option save to grant xvarrant
for registration of their marriage."
Manchester (Emj.) Guardian.
m m
The Old Bailey.
Entering by the loxv spiked xvicket, so
familiar to all passengers in the Old
Bailey, the x-isitor passes through the
Warder's common room into a dark,
narrow passage xvhich, running north
and south, communicates xvith every
part of the interior. Iu front, on the
right hand, is a gallery opening into a
small, comfortable-looking room, fitted
xvith a press, a safe for the keys and a
leaden cistern bearing the date 1781. In
the press are kept a variety of disused
handcuffs and leg-irons, some of them
being of a great thickness aud xx-eight
The leg-irons, xvhen xx-orn, hung from
311 iron belt round the culprit's waist.
In tJie cupboard are also preserved the
block, xvith its hammer, upon xvhich the
prisoner xvould place his feet that the
ci-ains might be fastened on and unrix'
cled just before his execution, xvith the
av that xvas carried to the scaffold iu
front of the condemned under sentence
for treason. This ax has nex'er been act
ually used for the purpose of decapita
tion after death. The head xx-as severed
by a skilled surgeon. The last time the
ak xx-ent to the scaffold xx-as on Monday,
May 1. 1820, xvhen Thistlewood, Brunt,
lugs, Davidson and Tidd, principals of
the Cato street conspiracy, xvere exe
cuted according to the horrid manner
of traitors. In this apartment, too,
malefactors xx-ere pinioned by the hang
man. That operation is now performed
in the condemned cell, with a set of
straps of ingenious construction. The
place of execution for Middlesex has
been at Nex-gate since 1 78:1, and until a
few years ago before the door in the
more northerly portal. The "procs
sion" so frequently described in the
daily journal used to start from the pin-ioning-room
down the passage, through
the kitchen, passing betxveen black cur
tains put up for the occasion, and so out
into the Old Bailey. The gibbet, or
scaffold, xvas brought ox'er night from
its place in the Sessions-house yard; the
staples to xvhich it was fastened may yet
be seen at either side of the outer" iron
door of the kitchen. The dissection of
the bodies of executed persons xx-as dis
continued in the year 18:12. Casts are
noxv taken of their faces; these, ar
ranged in a lobby of the Warders' room,
are by no means pleasant to look upon,
though not xvithout their value from a
physiologist's point of viexv. The chap
el, xvhere divine service is celebrated
every day, is on the first floor at the
Vearof the Governor's house. In the
Microcrosm is a plate by Rowlandson
and Pugin of its interior (since consid
erably changed) in the year 1809, on a
Sunday preceding the day of execution.
Sunday being a dies non in the eyes of
the law, it xx'as then customary to hold
capital trials on FridaS, and to give the
condemned the full benefit of the few
hours' grace meted out in sentence.
London Society.
Collecting Ivy Roots.
There is an industry in the mountains
of Western North Carolina and East
Tennessee that is perhaps knoxvn to but
fexx-, and is probably found in but few
sections of this country, viz.: The col
lection of ivy roots. The roots are
shipped to this city and Boston, where
thev are used for making door knobs
and pipe boxvls. They are found prin
cipally along the line of the Cranlerry
Branch Railroad and in the vicinity of
Rome Mountain, xvhere they grow in
great abundance and attain an enormous
size. Our informant states that recent
ly a root xveighing 800 pounds was dug
from the ground and shipped to market
This is supposed to be the largest ivy
root ex-er found, but roots xveighing from
sex-enly-fix'e to l."i0 pounds are frequent
ly found. The collection of these roots
has groxvu into quite an industry, and a
large number of poor farmers are thus
engaged and make a fair livelihood.
There is a constant demand for the
roots, and good prices are paid for them
by the ton. The xvood is said to be very
valuable for the purposes for which it is
used. Philadelphia Star.
mm
Ruskin calls the clouds " the pool
man's picture gallery."
PERSONAL AND MTERART.
Mrs. Julia Ward Hoxve. of Boston,
fc snid to have learued Greek after she
xvas fifty years old.
Edxvard Payson Weston, the pedes
trian, is delivering lectures in England
on " Advantages of Temperance in
Athletic Exercises."
The Secretary of War is having pre
pared an elaborate report of the York
toxvn Centennial celebration, xvith tho
maps, details of troops, and other mat
ters of interest in connection xvith tho
affair.
Colonel John L. Lay, of Buffalo. N.
Y., uwentor of the Lay submarine tor
pedo, has been made bv the Czar a chev
alier of tho ancient and honorable order
of St. Anne. He is the only American
xvho has thus been honored.
A New Y'ork lady of letters has
xvritten a novel of NexvYork upper soci
ety, with the title, 44A Transplanted
Rose." It is a x'ery faithful ami enter
taining reflection of the more intimate
anatomv of the highest social jranjjluu
The Boston Post discovers that in
the literary race for the mantle of Na
thaniel Ilaxvthorne. George Parsons
Lathrop is a neck ahead of Julian Haxx
thorne. Mr. Lathrop. xx-e believe, mar
ried one of Nathaniel Haxvthorne's
daughters.
The Queen of Italy is described a
having an interesting but sad and pa
thetic expression of countenance. She
has no majesty of presence; her xvalk is
ungraceful; but her manners are affa
ble ami gracious, and she puts the shy
est stranger instantly at ease.
The author of those xvouderful
books, " Alice in Wonderland" and
"Through the Looking-Glass." is Mr.
Dodgson, an Oxford magnate of tho
lesser degree. No books of nonsense
ex-er had a greater success among liter
ary people. Chicago Journal.
The chief American xx-orshiper of
Robert Browning is Mr. Thaxter, the
husband of the poet Celia Thaxter.
This Massachusetts man has devoted
many years of his life to the study of
Broxvn ing, anil has been giving read
ings of his idol's xx-orks iu T'oston.
Seth Green, the noted pisei-.
culturist, is thus described in the Koch
ester Democrat: " Mr. Green is oue of
those hardy, well-preserved, gracious
men xvho receive one in the most hos
pitable aud informal manner. His
strong frame bears a large rotund head,
well stocked with hair, and his long,
heavv grey xvhlskers, almost hiding
the look of decision evidenced by
his mouth, gix-e him the appearance of
a patriarch of the good old Yankee days
in the colonies. Beneath and gleaming
through the deep set eye, with ltssteatl
fast look that expresses a full rounded
out character and contented disposition,
is a merry txviukle that enkindles into a
well-defined expression of satisfaction
whenever he relates his exerienee xvith
his friends, the inhabitants of the water'
element."
HUMOROUS.
The English complain that our raw
cotton has sand in it. Let 'em xvork it
right in. call it friction factory and sell
j it for match scratchers. Detroit rrec
Press.
I A little boy xvho has been used to
receiving his older brother's old toys
I and clothes recently remarked: " Ma,
1 xvill I have to niarrv his xvidoxv xvhen
he dies?"
" I'd hax-e you know that my uncle
xx-as a bannister of the low." "A fig for
your bannister!" retorted Mrs. Part
ington, turning up her nose: "haven't
I a cousin as is a corridor iu the navy?"
"What a beautiful sight!" exclaimed
Mrs. Jones, rapturously, as she looked
out over the beautiful scenery from a
Pennsylvania railroad car. "Yes." re
plied Jones, xvithout raising his oyes
from his paper, "anthracite.
An exchange contains an account
of a man being " carried txvelx-e miles
by the xvind." It might have occurred.
There are times xvhen a man xvould he
carried five hundred miles by tho
"xx-iiiil," if he could only raise it. Xor
ristoien llmild.
The young man xvho stores his mind
xvith old proverbs must become xvise.
Foi instance he xvill learn that "An
empty bag cannot stand upright" No
one ever thought or believed it could,
or ex-er wanted to; but it is xvell enough
to knoxv such things. X. O. Picayune.
A lady in Frostburg. Maryland, the
other day, xvashed her son's mouth xvith
soap because he sxvore. A few day.s
after she found him in the yard xvith his
mouth and face full of suds. Peering
through the foam, he said: "Sxvore a
heap of times to-day, mamma; getting
them all out noxx."
A certain doctor of divinity has
said that every bhule of grass" is a
sermon, and a Cheyenne man xvants to
cut doxvn the expenses of his church by
purchasing a bale of hay instead of a
pastor. We refrain from making a pun
upon the xvoril pastor in order to leave
this paragraph open to our exchanges.
Laramie Boomerang.
A neighbor of Mr. Miggs. glancing
out of the xvindow, observed that esti
mable man plugging up the knot-holes
in his back-yard fence, and ventured to
ask: "Any hard feelings agin' the
woman next door?" " No," returned
Miggs. placidly. "Mrs. M.'s got
rheumatiz iu the jaxx and the doctor
says she must keep quiet."
A West End man h:ul trouble xvith
a plumber in his employ recently be
cause he thought the plumber xx-as try
ing to kill time. And he exclaimed to
the plumber: " Confound you, get outl
Go and loaf on the street and I'll pay
you for your time. But I'll be hanged
if I pay rent on a house for you to loaf
in!'- The line must be draxvn some
where. Boston Post.
Literature for Prisoners.
The prisoners in the Austin jail re
quested the jailer not long since to get
them some liooks to read. The jailer,
being a kind-hearted man, procured
a mixed lot of old books at an auction
room, and proceeded to divide them out,
while the prisoners xx-ere assembled in
the jail yard.
"Here is a book for you," he said, giv
ing it to a man who was in for murder.
The prisoner looked at it. shook his
head and handed it back. It xx-as "Dr.
Smith's Diseases of the Throat."
The next one got a small pamphlet.
He xx-as in for Yiorse-stealing: but he
thought the jailer meant something per
sonal, as the title of the book was:
"Hints Hoxv to Raise Fine Stock."
Still another, xvho is indicted for rob
bing the mail, got a copy of the "Postal
Guide;" while a gentleman, who is ac
cused of imitating another's signature,
drew: "Hoxv to Write a Good Hand in
Ten Lessons."
They handed the books back to the
jailer, and said they preferred a bunch
of old newspaper exchanges, as then
they could pick out the items ifeey want
ed to read, Tem$ 3if tings.