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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 19, 1877)
t'r THE PAILYBEE E. ROSEWATER. EDITOR AXD PROPunctoa. R09EWA.1ER JUKIORTI COMM.- MKSTSTO HI1XLR. GREAT LTAB MILLER , who swin dled "cores of poor workingmen in Omaha , who sold out his party every time he had a chance , who would swindle his own father If he could gain any .political advantage by it , talks about reform. The only way he ever can reform is by a term of service in the penitentiary. NVv-ewater names from such a source lall flat npon the ears of the public. We came to Omaha when a bny only fifteen years of age , earned our money by hard work , and turned over every dollar of It to help an aged father in his declining health , and began at twenty- one without any resource but our own bands and brains. Miller , on the contrary , after securing his property from his father , has been charged , and not falsely , with faithlessness to his father ; and the time was when Lorin Miller slept and lived under a strange roof , while his son George was living upon the lusury trans- ferr id to him and the ili-cotten gain acquired by repudiating honest lu borers their honest pay. This is all we have to say in answer to Miller's compliments to Bosewater Junior. MILLER'S RKOFOSEB SELL. OUT. THE BBS is not in the habit of making a serious cbaree against a Journalist or a public official with * out the evidence to prove its aser- tion When we wrote our charges against Miller that he had procured a letter from Bamusl J. Tilden , advising - vising Democrats to vote .or Hitch cock we knew what we were talk ing about An acquaintance with that prince of knaves , Dr. Miller , led us to expect this and more from that bribe.takcr and unscrupulous traitor. He bad made public charges of bribery and corruption against the Republican party. He had de nounced Senator Hitchcock as a thief , bribe eiver , dealer in Weat Point cadetehJps , merely as a bid to be bought off. He was bought off. He exposed Cunningham for hiH traurtulent surveys and then sold out to him by retracting all be bad aid. He boasted he would ex plode a bombsboll in U. B. court frauds , but again it was merely to beeileuced. He has deplored ttie immorality exi ting in the puli cs of the country and insisted upon.re- form and Tilden. F IB His first act after the election was a corrupt coalition , with the most corrupt denator that ever disgraced a sovereign State. His last plot is to force upon the people of Nebras ka this infamous senator by the al lurements ol u letter from a Demo cratic pi evidential candidate. He knows that a man who would sell out his party , as he nays Hitchcock has agreed to do. will bt > faithless to his pledge to those * who pur chased it by their disgrace Aud this is the Democratic leader who proposes to lead the overDur- deued taxpayers out of th sloughs of corruption. Democrats ol Doug las county , does it not make your cheeks turn crimson with the bluth of shame to think of it ? And you , Republicans , who have listened to the hypocritical appeals of this dem agogue , to rise aoove partizanship in the interests of honesty and jus tice , what do you think of this in famous scoundrel ? ANY journalist who would delib erately prostitute , himself and his journal in upholding bribery , per jury and forgery , is a fit subject for the penitentiary. We mean you , Mr. George Jj. Miller. WHAT would the public think of a firm who would offer a bribe * o the book-keeper of a competing house for the oetrsyal of his em ployer's truste ? This only in a tenfold degree is what Menator Hitchcock ia guilty of. IF it seems uncharitable in a young man to resurrect from th bitter past the relics of family feuds presumed to be buried , all we have to say in justification is that Miller can thank Hitchcock with being the author of their resurrection. It was made ia the Kepublican less than three years ago wnen Miller , still possessed of some degree of manhood , exposed that corrupt ofh- clal aud gave his pledge as a man of honor to prove his charges before a legislature or a court of justice. ARK Democrats willing to have their candidate for the highest of fice in the girt of the American people ple placed in the attitude of secur ing judgment on his election by the bribery of a corrupt Senator. If not , then they must repudiatt ren egade Miller , who has for prom ised consideration agreed to use the Tilden emergency as a whip-lash to drive Democrats into the support of a back-pay thief , a liar , a bribe- giver , a bribe-taker , anrt a copartner - nor with perjurers and forgers. MiLiJtK bus tbe shameless ef frontery to uphold & United States Senator in an effort to bribe a man to steal documents belonging to bis ' employers. Tuis same man public ly denounced as a fit subject for im- 'prifioument an operator who be trayed a trust by ezposluc a corrupt ' , > effort to coerce workingmen to vote \ [ against the dictates of their con- seience. In thb case , howexer , [ while tbs effort was made to lnduce [ by bribery a man to commit a theft , [ it turned out , from the non-existence 'of a eupposeo. document , to be an inducement to the commission of | forgery and perjury. Ard this ' criminal act is applauded by a man who pretends to tea-b moral * to tbe s children of oar schools , and who cnes Democracy and Keform 1 -M. CAUGHT AT I , A NT. The sudden and extraordinary disclosures revealed by the legisla tive investigating committee yes terday , at length reveal in an un- mistakeable manner the character and desperation of the most cor rupt rlnj ? of publla plunderers that ever infested a State. New York has had a Tweed. Kansas a Pome- roy , and Nebraska will in the future point to the records that she his had a Hitchcock. The boldness and shamelessness of a scheme un questionably gotten up in consulta tion with Miller to serve as a thun derbolt wherewith to drive men like sheep to Hitchcock's support when in a fever state of excitement , has , thanks to a conscience-stricken abbettor in crime , been thwarted , and tne public are permitted to gaze upon tbe true inwardness of this high handed scheme. The revela tions develop the fact that , presuni ing that the B & M. railroad com pany was , like himself , using money to advance tbe interests of some par ticular candidate , Senator Hitch cock determined to get some au thentic clue in order to use it as ei i- dence whereby he might turn the public in the important moment from his own terrible record , mask his own bribery resorts , create a sudden sentiment in his favor before it would be too late to overcome the shock. To accomplish this he eet his hirelings to work with money to bribe a puor clerk with sufficient inducement to betray his trust and to steal a sup posed document for the furtherance of corrupt euds. Unfortunately , and to the credit ot the company , no such effort bad been made , and no such documents were in existence. With the inducement of a thousand dollars , however , before him tbe young man gave way to its enticing allurements and committed tbe double crime of forgery and perjury. That he could not l.ave been entire IT lost to a sense of honor , is evi denced by his confession which he sent to be delivered to Superinten dent Irving , sfter be considered himself 8&fe on his journey. Tills confession * was the thunderbnltthat struck back with double force at the conspirators. Mr. Irving , recog nizing the importance of quick ac tion in the matter , took the bearer of the clerk's message on a special train for the scene where the trage dy was to be consummated. With truth as his weapon it did not take long to upset the sudden Disclosures of the purchased forger es. It was now the opportunity for tbe oppo nents of corruption 10 turn the tide. With scarcely a moment'H notice an investigation was ordered , the Senator's private secretary forced to tbe witness stand , aud before he had an opportunity to belhh.k him self , his testimony was secured from him. Its purport as shown by the dNpHtcliHH was a sur prise to even tbe senator's most san guine opponents. It was the direct evidence of the senator's guilt aud proved him to be a most ehamelees villain How any one can support this man in the .ace of such a din- closure passes our comprehension. No man who will do it can be pos sessed of the faintest spark of hon esty or self respect , ba he Republi can or Democrat , and deserves the eternal execration of all honorable citiiens. We iiope the records will produce no evidence or such de praved characters. COME OX WITH TOUR PUOOF. The two organs of plunderers and apologists of perjureis , liars , thieves and villains , in thia city.charge that Edward Bosewater , editor of tbe BBE , has been drawing a stipend of $100 per montn from the B. & M. railroad company. The BEE , un like these subsidized journals , throws down the gauntlet and dares them to the proof. The charges are as false as are the forged documents on the B. A M. officials. The only money drawn on the B. & M. by the BEE In the past year was for Job work and advertising. Tbe figures are produced elsewhere in this issue with affidavits attached. On part of tb work done -we have had , at times , advances from that compa. ny , aa we have from the Union Pa cific company , and individuals with whom we do business. Only two days ago we drew $100 in money from the Onion Pacinc Land De partment as part advance pay ment on work not yet fully completed and delivered. On tbe same eround that the other charge is made , it could therefore be charged that the BEE has been bribed by the Union Pacific railroad. Miller , Hitchcock , and their host of accomplices further allege , as evi dence that the BEE is bribed , tne fact that the REE received an order or 1,000 copies about tbe time of the primaries. Now It BO happened that the Union Pacific company also ordered ' ,000 copies of tbe BEE ast fall when tbe BEE published a communication from a Lone Tree correspondent Was the BEK bribed by the Union Pacific company because it tilled their or ders ? The charge would come with the same consistency from that source , and yet the BEK Is- called by them an enemy < 4f tue Un ion raolfio railroad. Having thus disposed of the charge in relation to the BEE , let us see bow it is with Dr. Miller and Mi. Brooks : Miller is proven to have been subsidized by the Union Pacific road by tbe records which show his interest in the railroad eating-houses , his sudden somer sault on the narrow-gauge , and countless other instances. Brooks has been proven to have drawn $125.00 per month from the Union Pacific company. The fact that his name was on the pay-roll in the Auditor's books has been proven , and one of the alleged charges airaiust a clerk who wa dismissed from tbs services of that company last fall was that he had divulged the secret , the truth , of. which was thus admitted. The Brains of Criminals. Says tbe British Medical Journal : In our last issue we published a very interrestiug latter from our Vienna correspondent , in which a brief , summary was .was given of Prof. Benedict's researches on the brains and skulls of criminals. The subject is an Important one , both from the pbpsiogical and psy chological point of view , and it is to be hoped that more extended and more precise inquiry will be made upon it , for the results which Mr. Benedict nas obtained , though very important , are not sufficiently nu merous to warrant any large Induction. Up to tbe pres ent time Dr. Benedict has ex amined the brains of sixteen crimin al j , all of which , on comparison with tne healthy brain , he finds to be abnormal. Not only has he found that these brains deviate from the normal type , and approach toward that of lower animals , but he has been able to classify them , and with them the skulls in which they were contained , in three cate gories. These consist in : First , absence of symmeliy between the two halves of the brain ; second , an obliquity of the interim part of the brain or skull in fact , u continua tion upward of what we term a sloping forehead ; third , a d 1st met lessening of the po-lerior cere- bal lobes , so that as in trie lower animals , ti ! - > are not large enough to hide the cerebel lum. In all these peculiarities the criminal's brain are distinctly of a lower type than thee normal men , and the intenir question arises , how fur are ti e tvil acts of the criminal to be att United to this retrogade development ? Dr. Watts can pardon tbe vicious pronennities of'Dears and lions , " on tl.e ground that -'God had made them HO. " If he had foreseen these new inquiries he might have felt less hopeful when he bade his little readers not not to "let their angry passions rise. " The result of Dr. Benedict's researches , if confirmed by further examinations , will do much to shake many beliefs now firmly fixed. The Fashionable Doctor. London Examiner. One can tolerate a fashionable lawyer , or even a fashionable bard , or a fashionable reviewer , whose chief tin against nature and good manners is his fondness for making jokes in quaint language concern ing tils digestion ; the fashionable actor is equally bearaole he no longer swears nr gets truculently drunk , he dresses well , and if he does absorb an unreasonable amount of attention from the girls , hebe ra the fatigue of their attentions with a grace that steals nil artfulness from bis art and we like him because , although acting all the time , he acts do well .But your fashionable doc tor is diffeient. ! Time was when men and women trembled in the presence of a priest ; grew pale on belliir brought into contact with a lawyer ; lost their wits in shaking hands with u bard , but grew meiry in hobnobbing with a player. Enter the fashionable - ; able doc or into a drawing-room ot I t to-day , and there is a general exit of I ' all healthy huruau emotion. He knows everybody's iusic'e , and they know that be knows , and thi mu tual knowledge bus a depressing efiett. .Everybody's mouth Is shut his ulone is open everybody in that room of torture acknowledges herself in thepluinest manner to bea lame duck , or himself to be a screw , aud BO long as this medicine man remains in that assemblage of crip ples , so long is every one feept under the spell ol disease , and what is the f ingular part of the performance auxii 'j at the earliest moment to obtain a prescription ; to j-o for advice ; to beg , after long waiting in a crowed room of anxious in quirers , the exilted privilege of paying a heavy lee for being al lowed to talk in private of his or her own liver , or his or her own mucous membrane For the pleasure of having this baptizeu imposter look down her throat for one single second , or for the pleasure it will give her friends , a lovely girl who has nothing on earth the matter with her that the bummer's b-eath could not heal , or Mother Nature's own embrace could not cure , will go through an ordeal so intense , t arcuing and ap palling as an examination used to be to high-born women in tbe presence - , enco of tbe brutal Christians who formed the sec et conclave of the holy office Once confess to your fashionable doctor that you have got a head , a chest , a stomach , a spine , and an auricle , and it is all up with you. You get possessed ; and oncp possessed of u fashionable doctor , there is no power on earth to bring deliverance. Nor is deliverance desired. "Come and see me again on Fri day , " aud tbe victim goes ; again is let fall a golden tear , whicn tbe sun himself might have shed , wnich the fashionable doctor care fully puts into his bottle , facetiously labeled ' .Solution of New Guinea , " and tbe game once begun it is car ried on by means of an ingenuity which is as cunning as it is devilish Hydrophobia Panic In London Telegraph. At Glasgow a terrible panic has lately arisen , due to a widespread popular belief that hydrophobia had broken out theie in something like an epidemic , or perhaps we should say , epizootic form. Straightway the police proceeded to slay all dogs they found in the streets unmuzzled and without responsible guardians It would appear , however , that the alarm has b en somewhat exagger ated. ated.Dr. Dr. G. H. B ftlaclsod , the professor ser cf surgery in the University of Glasgow , has done > , rood rvice. by- exploding this fact. In a popular lecture he delivered the other night at Crosshill he took occasion to say that a great deal of the hydrophobia about which they were mourning in Glasgow was simply tbe creation of terror. In fact , it would seem that , just as by homeopa hie doae of drugs one can sometimes cure diseases by acting on them through the imagination , so a tearful mala dy may be generated by the opera tions of overwrought fancy. In this way people , when they read de scriptions of the horrors ot hydro phobic , which is an extremely rare disease , imagine whenever a dog scratches them that they are doom ed to perish from foaming madness. Now , aa Dr. McLeod wisely"eug - gestB , there is little really to fear from the bite of u dog in most cases ; for even , be remarked if a mad dog bit him through tbe clothes , he would not care , because the ani mal's teeth would be cleaned trom poi'-ou by rubbine through the cloth , and there would be no fear ot bad results. If persons were bitten by dogit | was foolish to destroy the snimal there and then , for more than once he had known of cases where men recovered from what was thought to be hydrophobia merely by being shown the dog that had bitten them all sound and clotLed in its right mind. BECIPES FOR THE TABLE. Plain Soup , 1. A piece of beef which you can buy for 14 or 15 cents ; put it on six hours before you intend to use It ; cover tbe meat with two 1 quarts of cold water , and let it simmer slowlj ; one hour before tak ing it off add one carrot , one turnip , one small onion , and a H tie celery , all c-it up tine ; drain and serve ; add salt and pepper. Campbell. > Plain Soup , 2. Save your beef steak and roast beef bones ; cover with hot water , and let them boil slowly all day ; it the water boils away , add more boiling water ; you can have a pint or a quart of soup from tbiscccordingto tbe amount of bones ; any tough pieces of the beef con be boiled with the bjnes ; at night strain and wet in cool place ; an hour before dinner next day remove the fat Irom the surface ; add a small on ion sliced flue , a pinch of thyme , /salt aud pepper , and let boil half an hour ; tlun add two sticks of maca roni and boll till done. Leave out the macaroni , add vermicelliwhich requires only ten minute * for cook ing , and you have another soup ; put in stewed tomatoes a few spoonfuls with half a teaspoonful otbugar , and you have another soup. Sometimes the soup will be a jelly , when cold. Do not add water to this , it will melt. Mutton Soup. Take the bone left from a leg ot roast mutton ; crack it once or twice ; add any bits of meat that aiv left , and boil all lay , first covering with hoi water. You can have three pints of soup from these boues At uignt , or af ter it lias boijeii at least eight bourn , strain and set it iu a cool place ; the next day remove the fat , add one onion , half a carrot , one turnip , some parsley , a little celery , or cel ery salt , a pinch of thyme , salt and pepper ; chop the vegetables very fine , and let boil half an hour by themselves , then turn Into the stock and boil half an hour longer A little tomato , or tomato catsup , is an improvement. If you choose , thick , n with three table- j ftpooufuls of flour , mixed quite smoothly in a little water. JjJ. "M.N. j j Tomato Soup. Take the thin part of a can of tomatoes ; stew half an i hour ; season with butter , salt , pep per and sugar ; have ready one pint of milk thickened with two tablespoonfuls - spoonfuls of flour , or enough to make it like drawn butter ; salt ; at dinner time pour both through a colander , Hirring them in the tu reen ; be careful In have it served hot ; tureen should be heated E. M N. Pea Soup One quart of split peas soaked over uight ; in the morning take one pouud and a half of fresh beef and half a pouud of salt pork ; drain the peas well and put on tbe fire with four quarts of wa ter , aud the meat and a tablespoon ful of dried and powdered mint , tna two beads of celery ; simmer slowly until tbe peas are all boiled to a soft pulp ; have some oread tcasted very brown and cut in diceiu the tureen ; strain the soup aud send to table at once ; must be stirred just as you serve It ; season with pepper aud celery salt. Aunt Addle. Economical Soup. Take what remains - mains of a cold goose or turkey , and put to boil iu sufficient cold water to cover all the bones and boil stead ily four hours : season with salt and pepper , and odd a few vegetables , as for other soups ; thicken with a lit. tie rice aud it makes a relishable dish. dish.A A Wedding Dinner. F rat course , raw oysters < > n shell ; second end , soup ; tuird , fisti ; fourth , oyster parties ; fifth , tenderloin of beef with potato croquettes ; sixth , roost chikeus ; seventh , canvasback - back Uuciis ; eighth , salads ; ninth , ice-creams and jellies ; tenth , fruits and nuts ; eleventhcoffee.--Camp bell. An.Economic Breakfast Dish. Small pieces of meat , one teacupful milk put in the frying-pan with a little salt and pepper , small table spoontul butter , bix eggs beaten up and stewed in with tbe meat. Pork Cake One cup of chopped porK , one cupful of riisins , the same or molasse and milk , one teaspoonful - ful each of salt aud soda , and four cupfuls of flour PLAIN MIMOE-MEAT Procure a good piece of beer without bone , : end cover with boiling water ; j letHimmer until tender and thewa- ! ter nearly exhausted ; do not let it brown ; when cold mince fine , re jecting all iat ; save the water , and when cold , take the ( at from it and put the water on the meat. To one bowlful of meat add two bowlfuis minced , juicy appies , one bowlful raisins , one half bowlful currants , aud one teacupiul minced suet ; su gar and spice to taste , a pinch uf salt , and cider sufficient to moisten. f BAKED INDIAN PUDDING-One cupful "granulated" yellow meal , one-half cupful wheat flour ; mix with these enough cold water to thoroughly moisten ; stir into one pint boiling milk ; put into a pud ding dish , and t small piece ot but ter , one beaten egg , one small teacupful - cupful molasses , one tablespoonful sugar , one pint cold milk , salt and gingnr , to taste ; bake three hours. The "granulated" is by far better than the finely-ground meal Indian Meal Padding , 1. The meal may be prevented from sett ling at the bottom of the dish by stirring the pudding several timts during the first hour it is put in the oven. If the Indian meal used for pud ding is scalded and steeped for two hours , eggn are used , the meal will not sink to the bottom of tbe pudding - ding dish. Miuce Pie , 1 Five pounds of beef boiled and cbupp d finely , four pounds of suet boiled aud cbopped , five pounds of sugar , one pound o. citron , eight firmly pounded crack ers , two lemons chopped finely , one pint'of cider , the same of wine and brandy , one quince boiled aud cbop ped , two table spoons full of salt ; one teaspoon full of black pepper , one ounce e ch of cloves , cinnamon and mace ; grate nutmeg on top ; also bits of butter and sugar before baking ; m-x molasses and cider to gether with the crackers , heat to a seald , then mix them withthe re mainder of the ingredients ; mix the sugar with the wine. Mince Pie , 2. Seveu pounds of meat chopped fine , three pounds of sugar , three pounds of raisins , one pound ot.currant jelly , two ouncesof mixed spices ; add stewed apples when ready to make the pies , as the meat keeps better without them ; make a crust of two-thirds of the usual quantity of lard at-d one-third of finely-chopped fat salt pork ; rub well into the fliur aud wet with cold water , and bake in a slow oven for one hour. Mince Pie. 3. One pint finely , chopped beef ; two pints finely- chopped apples ; cinnamon , nut meg , and cloves finely pulverized , ( two-thirds cinnamon ) , one-third nutmeg and cloves , molasses , cider , fresh raisins. Buckwheat Cakes , 1. Four cup fuls buckwheat , one of IndJan meal , one1 teaspoonful salt , four cnpfula lace-warm water , one 2 cent comj j pressed yeast cake ; dissolve the yeast in another cupful luke-warm water , and stir all together thor oughly ; set at 6 o'clock in the mom- ing on two sticfca or a brick placed on ihe cool part of tbe range , and they will be ready to bake at 7:30. : This plan only works wall when the fire is Kept all night. Buckwheat Cakea , 2.Two parts of buckwheat flour , one part Gra ham flour , soli , good yeast stirred up in warm water over night in a thin batter. Two boiled potatoes added will make them brown nice ly. Buckwheat Cakes , 3 One quart buckwheat flour , one half pint of Indian meal , two teaspoon'uli salt , one-half tea cup of molasses ; stU into rather a stiff batter with tepid water. . When they are very light , if too stiff , thin them with a little tepid water. A raw yellow turnip cut in half is very nice to grate the griddle with , saving all the strong odor of frying fat. Currant JLioaf Bread. Make a batter of one quart of flour and one pint of warm sweet milk , two ten- spoonfuls salt , and naif a cake of compressed yeast dissolved in a lit tle water ; cover and set in a warm place until very light. Then rub tea a cream one cupful granulated sugar and a piece of cutter the size ot an egg ; add this to the sponge and one teaspoonful powdered cin namon and the half ot a small nut meg grated. Have one-half oound of currants ; < rub through tbem a little flour and put in the dough ; mold up very soft aud place hi the pan or dish you intend bakingitin ; cover warm and let It get quite light. Graham Bread , One cupful of flour , iwd cupfulst > f Uraham fioui , one cupful warm water , half a cup ful of takers' yeast , a little molasses and salt , half teaspoon ful of soda dissolved in the water ; let rise over night ; this quantity makes one loaf. Graham Bread , 2 One pint sponge , one pint warm water , one teaspoon I ul molasses , salt , oue-half teaspoontul soda ; stir in Graham flour ; arise and bake. Graham Biead , 3. Onequart fine flour , two quarts Graham flour , one tablespoontul salt , one Kill molasses , oue-half cup compressed yeast , dis solved In a teacupful warm water ; make into a stiff sponge and cover warmly. Let it get very light ; then knead into a soft dough , with fine and Graham flour mixed in the proportion of one-th rd fine and two- thirds Graham. Let it raise again , and mold out very soft ; place in pans ; let stand a few moments In a warm place. Soda Graham Biead. One pint sweet milk , two teaspoonfuls cream tartar , one teaspoon ful soda , two ta blespoon uls molasses , one quart flour , half teaspoonful salt. Chocolate Cake. One cupful but ter , two cupfuls sugar , three cup fuls milk , one-half teaspoonful soda , one teaspaouful cream tartar , five eggs , leaving nut two of the whites , three and a half cupfuls flour ; bake in a large sheet iron pan. The cake should be about one and a half inches thick when baked For frosting , two whites of eggs , one and a half cupfuls pulver ized sugar , two teaspoonfuls vanilla six teaspoonfuls grated chocolate ; spread on bottom side of cake when taken from the oven Eva. Lemon Cake. One and a half cuptuls sugar , three fourths cupful butter , one teaspoouful cream tartar , oue-half teespoonful soda , one- fourth milk , one and three-fourths cupfuls sifted flour , two eggs ; squeeze in the juice of two lemon ; bake in jelly tius ; grate the rind of tha lemon off , mix with powdered sugar and the wbite of an egg ; Hot very stiff ; when tbe cake is cold spread thip between the leaves as in jelly cake. Boiled Custard. One quart boil ed milk , four eugs , one cup ul sugar , one even table puouful corn starch ; bsat the whites separate , and stir in when cold. Snow Pancakes One quart snow water to about one pint sifted flour , orbufficieat to make a nice batter ; one teaspoonful salt ; one egg would improve it , though not altogether necessary. Beat until very light and smooth. Fry on a quick fire in lard , drippings , or "butter scrap ings. " Muffins One quart sour milk , oue even teaspoonful soda , a little salt , flour to thicken sufficient to drop. drop.One One Egg Tea cake One cupful sugar , butter tbe size of a black wal nut , rubbed together to a cream ; one-half teacupful milk , oue and a half of fl .nr , pinch of salt , one teaspoonful - spoonful of vanilla , one teaspoon ful of yeast powder ; bake in a thin cake ; before putting in oven sift powdered sugar over it. Ginger Snaps , 1. Mix together in a deep pan one pint.of West India molasses , one-half pound butter or lard , one quarter pouud brown su gar , ' two large tablespoonfuls ginger , one teaspoonful cinnamon , a little cayenne pepper , also a little salt if lard Is used , one leaspoonful soda dissolved in warm water , sufficient flour to roll out conveniently ; let the whole be well incorporated into a large lump ; knead it till it leaves the hands clean , then beat hard with a rolling-pin , which will make it crisp when baked ; roll out in thin cakes Ginaer Snaps , 2 Puctwo cup'uls molasses and one of butter In a tin pan ; boil five minutes , then let it c < > oi ; dissolve two teaspoonfuls soda in a little warm water , and pour in to the molasses aud butter ; two teaspoonfuls - spoonfuls ginger , one of cinnamon , fiour enough to roll without stick ing ; roll very thin. Ginger. Snaps , 3. Two coffee- cups full of .1 ew Orleans molasses , one teacupfull cugar , one-half cup full larder butter , three heaping ta blespoous full of Jamaica ginger , one ' heaping tablespoonful soda ; dissolve in one-half cupful ! warm water ; tablespoonfull vinegar ; make quite stiff , roll very thin ; bake brown hi a hot oven Gintrer Snaps , 4. One quart sifted flower , one pint of molasses , one half pound melted butter , two tablespoons full of ginger , one-half tea&poonfull cloves , oue teaspoonful ) cinnamon , one wine glassful ! milk , quarter pound light brown sugar , iwo heaping tablespoons full of bak ing powder , or two teaspoons full of saieratusdissolved in the milk ; roll very thin aud bake in quick oven More flour muse be added to make tbe dougn stiff enough to mold. For Frying Scallops , 1. Boll so da crackers fine , dip the scallops in well-beaten ej-g , then in the crack er crumbs ; fry with lard and but ter ; requires considerable cooking Tomato Salad One can of toma toes , same quantity of chopped cel ery , three eggs beaten light ; season with salt and pepper ; boil tomatoes and celerj- together until they are thick , take off fire and stir in tbe eggs , and when nearly cold add one tablespoontul of mixed Eogltah muttud. Falling in LOTP. ' There is nothing no moral or intellectual phenomena more strange than 'ailing in love What it is ; whence it originates ; how it is brought about ; these things are among the hidden mysteries of our nature. A , girl has reached the age of eighteen ; " a young mau that oj twenty-one. They have lived at home ; traveled a little ; pursued their studies ; attended parties , and been a good deal iu the society of otner young people ; yet they never took a very deep interest in any thing in particular ; neither of them ever cared very much for any other person. They met * , and lo ! of a sudden , all is changed. ! Each sees tbe oth er in a different light from whut any other was ever.seen in : the whole world seems changed. Life itself is changed : their whole being Is changed , to be like what it was , a..ain , nevermore ! Love is often as sudden aa this , but not always. Sometimes it is of very slow growth. Persons have known each other for years , and been muoh in each other's society and been intimate all this time , but never thinking of a tie stronger than friendship ; when some inaideut or event a temporary parting , or the interven tion between them of a third per son , friend or mi-anger reveals to them , for the first time , the great truth that they are mutually in love. Yet this love , springing up grad ually and imperceptibly , is no lesd mysterious and unfathomable than that which is sudden and at first sight. It is not mere friendship grown strong ; it is a more absorbing , more violent , mure un.-outrollable senti ment. ment.Whether Whether a person can full in love more than once is a mooted ques tion. tion.Some Some people appear to fall in love many times. It is not unusual to see widowers , who have been very devoted hus bands , marry again and seem to love the second wife just as well as the first. A Vicious Horse. From the Knoxville ( Iowa ) Democrat. A few days since u 14 year-old aon of Mr. John Caue , living iu Per ry township , this county , proceeded to hitch up a team of tiorses for tbe purpose of drawing wood , and , while eugaged , was furiously at tacked by one of tbe horses , a riddling , wi.ich had been owned by tb.2 family for some time , and of known vicioUHiaess. The horse jumped upon tbe boy , threw him down , and , v 1th instinct almodt human , knelt upon its knees , the belter to bite its victim One tiiumb 01 the boy was entirely bitten off , one of his ears was torn trom his Head , and a piece bitten off , one of bis fiugera was nearly bitten off * , and his arm above ihe el bow was horribly mangled Ly the teeth of the beast. Besides , tbe boy's clothes were torn from his person , and nis body badly bruised. The boy's mother , and sister , knowing the dangerous character of the horse , were watching out of a window , and seeing tbe attack , hastened to the child's relief. Each of the women graspsd clubs , and with them actually knocked the horse entirely down before it would cease its attack upon the boy , and when it did so , ) t wjth great fury turned its attention to them , and in the fight the clothes of both the women were sadly demoralized. The horse some time before had attacked and nearly killed a former owuei , and it is said once upon a time it bit aud crushed to death a man near Des Moines. NEBK1SK1 LEGISLATURE. Lint ol Standing : Committees. SENATE. Judiciary Cbapmau , Brown.Col- by , Powers , Hinmau , G"dhamCraw- ford , Tbummel aud Covell. Finance , Ways aud Means Am brose , Kenuard , Blaucnard , Holt , Thuminel , Howe " Accounts and Expenditures Birkhauser , Calkins , Dawes , Baird , Ateu. Agriculture Aten , Carnes , Wal ton , North , Van Wyck , Crawford , Pepoon. Highways , Bridges , Etc. Garfield - field , Pepoon , Molt- Military Van Wyck , Cams , North , Colby , Hayes. Public Lands and Buildings Kennard , Tbummel , Covell , Dawes , Ferguson , Wilcoxand Carnes. Internal Improvements Knapp , Powers , Birkhauser. Federal Relations - Calkins , Wilcox - cox , Walton , Hinmau , Gilham. Engrossed and Enrolled Bills jerguion , Thummel , Howe. Counties Hinman , Knapp. Von Wyck. Railroads Powers , Hinman , Chapman , Thummel , Howe , Birk- liau.-er , Keunard. Privileges and Elections Howe , Wilcox , Cams , Chapman , Crawford. State Prisons Biauciiard , Am brose , Howe , Garfleld , Covell. Miscellaneous Coporations Gil- ham , Ferguson , ( Jolby. Library Pepoon , Brown , Bryant. Claims Crawford , Hayes , North , Holt and Pepoon. Education Bryant , Pepoou , Chapman , Hayes , Crawford. Printing Brown , Biancbard and Knapp. Mines and Minerals Hayes , Covel , Garfleld School Funds and School Lands Colby , Bryant , Holt , Thummel , Birknuuser. Banks and Currency Colby , Hin man , Aten. Constitutional Amendments Corns. Crawford , Wilcox. Immigration Walton , Kennard , Bryant. - Municipal Affairs Ferguson , Cal kins , Chapman , Van Wyck , Baird. Public Charities -Covell , Balrd , Dawes. Gilham , Holt , Ferguson. Live Stock North , Aten , Howe. HODSE. Judiciary Northrup , Swiszer , Pritchett , F. M. Johnson , Doolittle , Chase and Boggs. \Vays and Means Anoau , Fitch- patrick , Phillis , Baker , Schminke , Caldwell and Hefferruau. AgncultJru Nicodemua , Heller- man , Elliott. Ewau , Page , Harri son and McVick- . Bqads aud Bridges Elliott , Jiuah , Hall . Meyers , Caldweli , Allen ami T. B.Johnson. Militia Paul Gilmore , Freirickx , Shelby , Hulliuan , Belden and Lam bert. Small , Phillips , McKee - Kee , Gibon , Beardsley , Anyan and Nicodemus. Internal Improvements GUman , Cadman , Jordan , Healey , Halde- men , Gerche and KoHb. Federal Relations Cadman , Ba ker , Seldeii. eelby.Kobbut , Chase and Eiseley. Enrolled and Eneronsed Bills McCall , Baruum , Eisley , Healey , Bush , Love and Freirichs. Accounts and Expenditures Beadsley , McKpe , Love Walters , Wbelplay. Small and Blackmore. Constitutional vAmeddmenta Switzer , Ew.in , Barnum , Harvey , Whelploy , Beardsley and Haldo- man. County Boundaries , &c. Sadler , Pane , Bobbitt , Mills , Harvey , Small and 8t Clair. Railroads Clark , Oilman. Pol lock , Fitcnpatrlck , Wells , Griffith and Creiirhton. Privileges and Elections Chose , Smith , Crelgnton , Brown , Cald well , Jury , Pritchett. State Penl ten tiory Phillips. Wal ters , Elliott , Burtch , Barker , Mills , Chomplln. Corporations F. M. Johnson , Keis , Mercer , Splcknall , Spellmau , McCreedv , Whitcomb Asylums Bear , Allen , Sadler , McK.ee , Smith. Wlloox , Gilmau. Library Bruno , Burtch , Thos. B. Johnson , ftlengel , Moore McCreedy , Htillihen. Cities aud Towns Gibson , Mc- Oall , ScLiniuke , Hpricir , Meyei > , EelsBan Ban Irs aud Currency Pollock , Bunyan , Champion , SeldenCreigb- ton , Hpellmau , Schminke. Common Schools Frudy , F. M. Johnson , Wilcox , Moore , Meyers , Whitcomb , Smith. University and Normal bchooli BOKUH. Wbelpley , Bobb , Switzer , Parker , Bear , Wolte. Public Printing -Wolfe , Barker , Burtcb , Love , Halderman , Spick nel ) , Spellman. Mines and Minerals Blackmore , Cadmau , Bohhitt , Barker , Sprick , Doolittle , Frody. . Immigration RPIS , Belden , Men- gel , Mills , MeVicker , Harrison , Clark. Miscellaneous Subjects IN e ville , Sprick , Cuamplm , Jury Whitcomb , Ewan , Healey. Manufactures and Commerce Runyun , Grirtith , Selden , Hulliban , Mercer , Clark , Gerdis. School Lauds Doolittle , Eiseley , Lamoert , Jordan , Paul , Sadler , Fitcbpatrick. Claims Jordan , Spicknall , Hall , Patje , Wilcox , Juiy , Nicodemus. Rules Mr. Speaker , Neville , Fra- dy , JNorthrup , Lambert , Gilmore , Anyan. Live Stock , &c. St. Clair , Baker , McCall , Moore , Page , Robb , Har- vey. MEDICAL. For throat , lungs asthma and kidneys. TAR SOLUTION , FORKST or inhalation for catarrh , consumption , bronchitis and asthma. rOREMT TAR TROCIIKN , or sore throat , hoarseness , tickling cough and purifying the breath. YtOKEVT TAU SALVE. JC or healing indolent sores , ulcers , outs burns , and for piles. FOREST TAR SOAP , or chapped hands , salt the am. skin dis eases , the toilet and bath. FOR ST TAR INHALERS , or inhaling for catarrh , consumption , asthma. FOR SALE BY ALL DRUOOISTS. Sep2 dSai PURE BLOOD Is the life , but bad blood is the abomli.a- lion. From it and derangement of the kid neys and urinary organs , come most of tha and aches and all diseases of the skin , Buns ' King Cure is a remedy that is intended to strike at the root of this trouble. It acts as a diuretic ovacnant in cases of Dropsy. Gout , Gravel , and all diseases of the Kidneys , while it acts on the stomach as a tonic. It moderately accelerates the circulation , gently encourages the action of the bowels and powerfully augments the urinary secretion purifies and cleanses the blood , thus removing the cause of boils , carbuncles , scrofula and all eruptive and cutaneous diseases ; reduces inflammatory , rheumatic and neuralgic pains and achei , allays inQmmation of thelkidneys.glandsand fibrous tisues and joint ? , softens and carries off gravel and other calculus deposits of the urinary organs ; cures Diabetes. Bright'8 Kidney Disease , Lucorrhea , ( Female Weak ness ) . Scrofula and all diseases arising from disorder of the uriny organs and impure state of the blood , and especially adapted to female complaints. It is a safe and pleas ant alterative , and cures without depleting the stomgth of the organs or the tune of the genonTl system. In other countries its rep utation was so high that it gained the title of "King's Cure. A daily use of it will in most cases prevent , and in all cases mitigate the attack of the diseases for which it is re commended. It is beneficial for washing eruptive discharges on the skin ; but for run ning sores , or severe pains ta tbe joints use Dr. Green's Crimean Linament , for man ana beast. For sale by .1. K. and by C. F. Goodman. mohl7-1te8thd BIiACK&JEKRTES Are one of the most valuable of our na tive fruits. Cooling and astringent , they form when compounded and medicated the very best and safest remedy known for Diarrhea. Dysentery , Flux , and what is commonly called the Summer Complaints. These are always troublesome and sometimes terribly fatal , especially among children ; Many lives misht be saved by firing them prompt attention , and care. On the other hand , many lives are sacrificed by the use of preparations contatninglaudannm and other plates. Dr. Green's Blackberry Cordial s lust what it represents to be ; apure medica ted compound containing nothing injurious to the system , yet prompt and effective to check and cure these diseases in men and women. Being made without alcohol , it is the very best and safest remedy for children. After this disease is checked the body is generally left worn and debilitated. A daTly and moderate use of Dr. Green's Bitter Tonic will revive and build it up. giving tone and vigor to tbe whole system , with an in creased and heallhy appetite. If your drug gist does not keep Dr. Green's Family medi cines , send to the proprietors , E. T. Bart- ruff A Co. , Burlington. Iowa , and they will lend you trial samples , as well as circular and testimonials. For sale by J. K. Ish. and by C. F. Good man. mch20-e8thdly EXPECTORATION. Is the act of discharging irom the throat and chest matter that arisesfrom colds , in stead of scattering and distributing it through the blood , and ppisoninc it. By thus assisting the Lungs , Throat and Chest , Dr. Green's Expectorant cures Colds , Coughs. Asthma. Bronchitis , Croup , Dyp- thena. Whoopin ? Cengh and all affections of the Lungs , Throat and Chest , and the first stages of Consumption and Typhoid Fever. Its qualities are Expectorant , Seda tive Factorial and Alternative. It does not stop the cough as most preparations do , by their anodyne and astringent effects , retain ing the mucous and offending matter in tha blood and causing permanent disease of the Lungs , but it cures by loosening the cough and assisting the lungs and throat to throw off the offending matter , which causes the cough , thus scientifically making the cure perfect. It at once alleviates the mast dis tressing cold on the lungs , soothes and allays irritation , and breaks up Whooping Cough. No better remedy can be found for Asthma. Bronchitis. Croup and all affections of the Throat Lungs and Chest , and if continued in nae will subdue any tendency to Consump tion , Lung and Typhoid Fever. If the liver is torpid or the bowels consti pated , a few doses of Dr. Green's Lirer Pills will assist nature. No better cathar tic can be found , for sale by 0. F. Goodman and J. K. Ish. mchli-iterlncl-iv BITTER As are the experiences of this life , none are without its silver lining. Troubl-s and cares come ; some abide with us ; some pass away. To-day the body is vigorous , tomorrow row it is dead and gone ; life at best is short and the great problem how to perpetuate it is still unsolved. Life , however , can be pro longed , the weak and feeble body made strong , no matter from what cause induced , and instead of being a ourden to dispeptic and debilitated bodies , can be made an en during pleasure ; but how ? Simply by the daily and moderate use of Dr. Green's Bit- te Tonic. This truly medicinal prepara tion . not a cheap and traahy article , in tended simply to stimulate and then leave the second state of the body worse than the first , but it gently relaxes the bowels , stim ulates the liyer , making it work off the poi sonous humor of the bloodcontrols and regu lates digestion , thereby removing the cause of headaches land low spirits , relieves flatu lency and foul stomach , giving tone and stability to that organ with an increased and healthy appetite ; regulates fr male weakness prevents fever and ague and malarious dis eases , protect ? the system froJi unwholesome air and impure water , and vitalizes and tones the whole body against all attreks of disease. Try it and yon will find it pleasant to the taste andhealing to the body. In sudden or severe cases of Liver Com plaint , or in constipation of the bowels , a few doses ef Dr. Green's Liver Pills will as sist the Tonic in a cure , and if you are shak ing with the ague. Dr. Green's Ague Pill will drive it away. For sale by C. F. Goodman andby J.K. mebll-lteSd-ly et Menralgia. iace i J. Rheumatism , Gout ifrosted Feet , Chilblains. ibore Throat. Erysipelis , .Bruises . or Wounds in man 'or ' Animal. K A valuable horse had Kswelhng and hard lumps Sin his throat ; could not swallow ; applied Giles' Liniment Iodide of ammonia - ' * nia : instantly soreness . and lumps disappea'ed 1 ILfell and cut my hand on a O rusty nail , applied the lin imet , healing it up with [ SON < f BROS. , 17th and MVineSts. . Philadelphia. QSold by all drugjriits. JDepotHo. 451 Sixth Ave- Qane. New York. OnlySOo Saadtl per bottle J. K. ISH. Ana : . RA'LtOADS. c . ? & NORTH WESTERNS A LWAY. Embraces under one tranagrmcnt the Gnat Trunk Railway lines of the Wejtand North- wtst , and. wi'h irs numrrons branches and connections , form * the shortest and quickest loute between ' 'hie eo and all p'ints in Ill inois. Wi con iti. JJorthern Michigan. Min nesota , Iowa Nebrask * . Callifornia and the Western erri. ' > ries. Its OMAHA ASI ) CALIFORNIA LINK I * the shortest and best route between Chicago cage and all jm nts in Northern Illinois. Iowa. Dakota Nebraska. Wyoming. Coloia- do. Utah. Nevada. California. Oregon. Chi na , Japan and Australia. Its CHICAGO. ST. PAUL 4 MINNEAPOLIS Lire is the shortest linn between Chicago aud all points in Northern Wisconsin and Minnesota , and for Madison. St. i aul. Min neapolis. Daluth. and alt points in the Great Northwest. Its LA CKO > SE , WINONA ± ST. PETER LINE Is the best ronta be'wecn Chicago and La Crosse. W nona. Kochi-gter.f > watonna.Man- kato. St. Peter. New Him and all points in Southern and Central Mi > nesota. Its GREEN BAY AND MARQUETTK LINE Is the only line between Chicago and Janes ville. Watertown , Fond du Lao. Ojhkosh. Appleton. Green Kay. Ejca/iaby. Ncgannee , Marqnette. Xonghton. Hancick. and the Lake Superior Countrr. Its FKEEPORT AND DUbUQUE LINE ly the only route between Chicago and El- pin. Rockford. Freepon.andall points rfll. Freejport. Its CHICAGO AND MILWAUKEE LINE Is t e oldest1 Lake Bhoro Route , as is the only one passing between Chicago and Kvanston. Lake Forest. HUhand : Park. Waukogan. Racine. Eenosba an' ) Milwau kee. FDU.VA * FALJCKDR * WDM } BOOK CARS are run on all th'ough trains of this road. ihis is the only line running these c rs between Chicago and St. Paul and Minneap- lis. Chicag and Milwaukee. Chicago and Winnna or Chicago and Green Bay. Close connections are made at Chicago with the Lake Shore * MichUun fonthern. ichigan Central. B 1 imo e & Ohio. Pitts- burg , Ft. Wayne * Chicago. Knu'cakee ' LUIR and Pan Handle Rontrs. for all points East and South ea t. and with the Chicago and Alton and Illinois Central foi a 1 point ) South. Close connections are ttlio made with the Union Pacific R. R. at Omaha for all far West points. Close co nectio s made at junction points with trainr of all cross point ] . Tickets owr this route are sold by all Coupon irket Agents in the Uni ed states and Canada. Remember , you ak for your tickets via the Chicago A North Western Railway , and take none other. New } ork Office , No. ' 15 Broadway ; Bos ton Office. No. 5 Mate s'reet ; Omaha Office. 2i5 Fnrnhnm . 't ' ect : Chicago Ticket Offices , 62 Clark Street , under Sherman Uouss ; 7a Canal , corner Maduon Street ; Kini'.e Stret Depot , corner W. Kinzie and Canal Streets : Well * Street Depot , corner Wells and Kinzie Stree s. For rate ) or information not ateainable from your home ticket agents , apply to W. II. ST VNETT Gen. Pass. Ag't. Chicago. MABVIN HCOBI T. Gen Mang'r Chicago ? an3y ST. PAUL. & SIOUX CITY. AND Sioni City & Pacific Railroads , 100 Mile i Shortest Roue teSt Paul , Minneapolis. Duluti or blimark , And the most dire't route to Sioux City and all points in Northern Iowa. .Minnesota and Dakota. Dakota.NO NO CHAN'lE OF CARS. Will run elegant Drawing Room and Sleeoing Coaches , owned and controlled by the Company , throug . without change be tween MAH.4 , COUNCIL BLUFF ' ASD BT PACT. Trains will leave the Union Pacific Depot at OMAHA at 4 p. m. , and vOUNCIL JUUFFS at 5:45 p. m.- reaching SIOuX CITVnt 10.20 p.m. . and ST-1'AUL. at 11 a. m , Tim * . 18 hours making TJtN I OUfiS IS AOTAKCB OF ALL OTBEE ROTTXS. Returning Will leave ST. PAUL a Mp. ns. . arriving at SIOUX CITY at 5a.m. . atd OMAHA at 10 a. m. . B"Tif kets for sate in Chicago nnd North western Kailway Offices Council Bluffs ; Un ion Pacific Depot ; and Grand Central Ho tel , Omaha. that your tickets read via "S. C. & P. R , R. " L.BUKNETr. Superintendent , Missouri Valley. F. C Hills. G-n'l Ticket Art. Sioni rity. J. H. O'BRYAN. Southwestern Freight and Passenger Agt. Omaha. MISCELLANEOUS THE JNiSVV YOK \ Newspaper , " Largest Circulat on. AMONG THE BEST PEOPLE. I. 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