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Small, Phillips, Nc

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Zee, Gibson, Beardsley, Anyan and
Nlcodemus.
Internal ImprOvements-G Gilman,
Cadman, Jordan, Healey, Halde-
men, Gerche and Rohb.
Federal Relations-Cadman, Ba-
ker, Selden, Seelby. Robbltt, Chase
and Eiseley.
Enrolled and Engrossed Bills
Mccall, Barnum, Eisley, Healey,
Bush, Love and Freirichs.
Accounts and Expenditures
Beadsley, Mckee, Love, Waters,
Whelplay, Small and Blackmore.
Constitutional Amendments -
Switzer, Evan, Barnum, Harvey,
Whelploy, Beardsley and Halde-
man.
County Boundaries, &c.-Sadler,
Pane, Bobbitt, Mills, Harvey,
Small and st. Clair.
Railroads-Clark, Gilman, Pol
lock, Fitzpatrick, Wells, Griffith
and Creighton.
Privileges and Elections-Chase,
Smith, Creighton, Brown, Cald-
well, Jury, Prltchett.
State Penitentiary-Phillips. Wal
tiers, Elliott, Burtch, Barker, Mills,
Champlin.
Corporations i F. M. johnson,
Refs, Mercer, Spicknall, Spellman,
McCreedy, WhitcOmb.
Asylums-Bear, Allen, Sadler,
Mckee, Smith. Wilcox, Gilman.
Library-Bruno, Burtch, Thos. B.
Johnson, MengeI, Moore, McCreedy,
Hullihen.
Cities and Towns-Gibson, Nc
Call, Schmlnke, Sprick, Meyers,
Refs.
Banks and Currency Pollock,
Runyan, Champion, Selden, Creigh-
ton, Spellman, Schminke.
Common SchoOls-Frndy, F. M.
johnson, Wilcox, Moore, Meyers,
Whitcomb, Smith.
University and Normal schools
BOggs. Whelpley, Robb, Swltzer,
Parker, Bear, Wolfe.
Public Printing-Wolfe, Barker,
Burtch, Love, Halderman, Spick-
nell, Spellman.
Mines and Observation-Disclosures,
Cadman, Bobbitt, Barker, Sprick,
Doolittle, Frady.
Immigration-Rels, Belden, Men.
gel, Mills, McVicker, Harrison,
Clark.
Miscellaneous Subjects-NevilIe,
Sprlck, Champlln, Jury, Whitcomb,
Evan, Healey.
Manufactures and Commerce
Runyan, Griffith, Selden, Hullihan,
Mercer, Clark, Gerdis.
School Lands-Doolittle, Eiseley,
LAMBERT, Jordan, Paul, Sadler,
Kirkpatrick.
Claims-Jordan, Spicknall, Hall,
Page, Wilcox, Jury, Nicodemus.
Rules-Mr. Speaker, Neville, Fra
dy, Northrup, Lambert, Gilmore,
Anyan.
Live Stock, &c.-St. Clair, Baker,
Mccall, Moore, Page, Robb, Har-
Omaha daily bee., 1877-01-20
EXPECTORATION.

Is the act of discharging from the throat
and chest matter that arises from colds. in
stead of scattering and distributing 1t
through the blood. and poisoning it.. By
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DR.. Green's Expectorant cures Colds,
Coughs, Asthma. Bronchitis, Group, Dyp-
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first stages of Consumption and Typhoid
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tive PICTORIAL and Alternative. 1t does not
stop the cough as most preparations do, by
their anodyne and a~stringent effects, retain
ing the mucous and offending matter In the
blood and causing permanent disease of the
Lungs, but it cures by l~oosening the cough
and assisting the lungs and throat to throw
of the offending matter. which causes the
cough, thus scientifically making the cure
perfect. It at once alleviates the N ost dis
tressing cold on the lungs, soothes and allays
irritation. and breaks up Whooping Cough.
No better remedy can be found for Asthma,
Bronchitis. Group and all affections of the
Throat Lungs and Chest, and if continued
in use will subdue any tendency TO Consump-
ton, Lung and Typhoid Fever.
If the liver is torpid or the bowels oonsti-
pated. . few doses of DR.. Green's Liver
Pills will assist nature. No better cathar-
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Omaha daily bee., 1877-01-20
THE HESSIAN AND HIS BRIDE.


Multiplying the Law Prohibiting
the Intermarriage Of whites and
Raleigh News.
The other morning a man sent to
the office of the Register OF Deeds
to get a marriage license. The Dep
uty Register was surprised to hear
in response that the man was white
and the woman colored. OF course
the license was refused.
In the afternoon we were in the
registers Office, and the man who
had wanted the license entered.
He had come to inquire why it was
refused HIM, and, though he had it
fully explained that the intermar-
riage of races was illegal, he left
evidently not 1T all satisfied.
There was present in the Office q
gentleman, to whose mind the cir
cumstances recalled an incident of
bygone times. He remembers to
have heard a Hessian who came ia.
to Halifax county, in this State, just
at the end of the Revolutionary war,
and became much infatuated with
a negroes living in the neighbor-
hood. There was a legal prohlbi-
ton, as now, of the intermarriage
OF the races, but a clause of the law
provided that If a white man desir-
ing to marry a negro woman, or
vice versa, would appear before a
justice and make oath that he or she
had negro blood in his or her veins,
the marriage might be solemniKed,
The Hessian was aware of this law,
and so, in order to dodge its intent,
as well as to shield himself from in
dictmenu for perjury, he drew about
q pint of blood from the arm of the
neeress, drank it, and then went
forthwith and made the necessary
oath before q magistrate. The mar
rage was thereupon solemnized,
and the descendants of the couple
are still living in Halifax.
Omaha daily bee., 1877-01-20

"Mr. Blinkenberry," said young
MIR. Loveknot with great earnest
ness "they say that you have some
thing that w~lllprevent afelIow'shalr
from falling out. Now Pm losing
my hair. What shall l do to keep
from getting bald 2" young fell
ler,' said Mi. Blinkenberry, lower
ing his voice to a sympathetic
whisper, "young teller, stay SINGLE"
Then the good man sighed, and
prevailed upon the barkeeper to
''set 'em up again."
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Omaha daily bee., 1877-01-20

Hon. JOHN @. GOWN, Lorenzo
Crounse, Judge Briggs, Gen. Man.
derson, Mr.. Nance, Van Wick.
Judge Lake, and q host of others
whose names want Of space pre-
vents US from enumerating at pres
ent, deserve the thanks of the peo-
pie of this State for the fight they
made against corruption and dis
honesty in the interest of popular
reform during the senatorial con-
test. but for them the contest of
SIX years against q corrupt dynasty
would have been fought in vain.
Omaha daily bee., 1877-01-20
The BENGAL STORM WAVE.
Minutes Made by tine Lieutenant
Governor. Sir Richard Temple,

Minutes Made by tine lieutenant
Governor, Sir Richard Temple.
From the Gazette Of India.
In an area of rome 5000 square
miles, out of ] .062,U00 persons sud-
denly thrown into more or less Of
danger, $4,000 must have persisted.
This, of course, is only an est.
mate; the exact nundbe cannot be
known yet. awhile. perhaps be
never will be known. We found
In some villages 30 per cent. OF the
Inhabitants lost, in others 80 per
cent, in some even 70 per cent.
There was q severe cyclone in the
Bay of Benral on the night of the.
31st of october. But is was not the
wind which proved 80 destructive,
though that was bad enough, It
WAS the storm, ,wevs; Sweeping
along TO- q Insight of from ten to
twenty feet, according to different
localities; in some places, where It
met with any resistance, 1t mount
ed even higher than that. Ia the
evening the weather was . little
windy and hazy, and had been
somewhat hot; the people, q mil.
lion or Whereabouts OF souls, retired
70 rest, apprehending nothing. But
before II O'clock the wind suddenly
freshened, and about midnight there
arose a cry of "The water is on u.s."
aud q great wave burst over the
country several feet high, it was
followed by smother wave, and
again by a third, all three rushing
rapidly southwark, the air and wind
being chilly cold.
The people were thus caught up
before they had time even to climb
on to their FOOLS, and were lifted to
the surface of the water, together
with the beams and matches of their
cottages. When the storm burst
there was an abundant rice CROP
ripening for the harvest-tbe we'll.
known deltaie fico crop, which is
much beyond the needs of local
consumption, and affords quantities
(measm ed by thousands of tons an.
nually) for expectation 10 distant
districts. A part is lost, that in
which the plant bad not advanced
bsyonu the stage of Towering, and a
part is safe still, that in which the
grain had formed or begun to form.
IF even ore.thIrd is saved that
would suffice TO- the population now
on the lard,
The aealth lost was almost en-.
tirely observation-disclosures or cattle.
To this, however, there is one no.
ticeablc exception, namely, powids-
khan, a rich trading town, clean
destroyed, with loss Of misce. lane
ods property and valuable records.
1t had 5000 inhabitsnts, one-rourth
ofwhom perishrd, perhaps more,
Omaha daily bee., 1877-01-20

Es0 000
Imagine Jesus sending Judas
among the Jew bankers of Jerusa-
lem for $50, 900 to build him a church
to preach his sermon OH Mount
Olivet. Let us join Sankey, Toombs,
Ben Hill, and Lamar, in singing
with Df. Watts:
In vain the rebel sons of hell
Their souls shall veI With envious rage.
And pine away and die.
Reporter - Another, eatht Mr..
Train, has CONE to grief. This tim
il Is not the Manhattan Club, butthe
Union League.
Mr.. Train-Verily, this is a bad
year. The foxes are eating up all
the farmers chickens. Breach Of
trust is a sbtehce. The Moslem is
always a Moslem, the Stole a
Stole, but is the Xtian always
a Xtian? Only a thousand pocket
books were stolen in Chicago by
Moody's converts. Tweed. made
his rishs with Woodward at a
Methodist prayer meeting. Nicoll,
Barrett, Ninslow. Swan, all belong
to the Put.in-Bay order of Zion
Tears rolled down his cheeks when
Swan babe good by to his Sunday
school class. Why is it everybody
syfnpathizes with the swindler, and
nobody with the swindled?
Reporter-May I give your place
Of residence if inquired for, Mr..
Train?
MIR. Train No! Az ] receive no
callers, talk with uo adults, make
no speeches, visit no theatres, con-
certs, lyceums, or churches, enter
no hotels, restaurants, courts, or pub
lie places, sea no intervlewers, ate
tend no dinners, balls, or private
parties, make no calls, give no
Christmas presents, make no char
tables donations, attend no wed.
dings or festivals, shake no hands,
belong to no club, society, or party,
court no sympathy, ask no favors,
need no money, desire no friend
ship, seek no Office, have no wish,
possess no aspirations, there is no
necessity of any one having my
address.-[New York Sun.
Omaha daily bee., 1877-01-20
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Gazette,
Omaha daily bee., 1877-01-20
BEECHER'S P~ERPLEXITIES.
An Awful Thing to be a Minister of
Christ, and Yet NOta Chriafian,

An AWIuf lnlnk 10 De n minister Of
Christ. and Yet NOta C%hrisiian,
New York Sun,
Mr.. Beecher's sermon yesterday
morning had an indirect but un.
mistakeable reference to the Man.
haitian Congregational Association,
recently formed and numbering
among its members many OF the
most distinguished Congregational
ministers Of New York and Brook
iyn. SO divine and precious, he
said, was the name of Christ,
that the preaching of the Gospel,
even by bad men for bad purposes,
was better than no preaching of
Him at ali, He spoke of the indt-
pendence Of churches. He had no
desire TO take a long needle and a
subtle thread and sew other church
es to bis skirts. To all of them, to
the Romanists, the Presbyterians
the Episcopalians, he said Ego on
and do good In your own way.
Only see TO it that the Christ you
preach is a Christ with a heart, and
not merely a theologian."
But how scarlfying it was to any
denomination to see a minister ar
raigted for letting women preach
in bis pulpit! How pitifuI to see
men with imperious consciences-
especially when they did not know
the difference between conscience
aud combativenessI 1t was an aw-
Eul thing to be q minister of Christ
aud yet not to he a Christian /; to
preach the Masters gospel for thir-
ty, forty, fifty years, and get no par
ticle of the fragrance that impreg.
mated His garments.
"Don't You think" he said, ''that
the hounds of love are better to run
down heresy than the hounds of
COS science? How painful it is to
e ministers OF Christ growing jeal
GUS in their old age; and Row sweet
to watch them becoming mellow as
they grow older"
ut is not any remlssness of doc
trine that weighs with me 1t is
my inability represent Christ in my
daily life. l am an ambassador of
Christ, representing Him here as he
represents His Father. But who,
with his voice, can represent the
voice OF the sea? Who, with voice
and hand, can represent the sweep.
ing storms of summer? If q butter
fly should wing its way into my
room and say, Il am sent by the
king of insects to represent your
how L should smile that an insect
should be chosen to act as my rep
resentative. Yet my errand is more
profound, more awful, called upon,
with all my frailties, to represent
my Lord and Master.n
Omaha daily bee., 1877-01-20
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Omaha daily bee., 1877-01-20
Food fer the Poor In Baltimore.

B ltimore Sun.
The distribution of food to the
poor from the police stations has
become q feature of the winter
charities of Baltimore. Since Dec.
10 about $4,000 persons have been
relieved at the six police stations.
Most are supplied with tickets, fur
nished by the policemen on the diff.
ferent beats. The tickets state the
number in each family, and the
amounts are given In proportion.
Omaha daily bee., 1877-01-20
One Potato By Hail.
Worcester Spy.

WofcS5t6f Spy.
A friend of ours received a day or
two ago through the p~ostofice, from
Olympia, Washington Territory, a
roundish package, which contained
a large potato 1t had been cut in
two and the inside scooped out, and
in the cavity We're found flowers
and leaves. which, as he learned by
a note previously received, had
been picked up in a garden in the
open air on the 26th day of Decem.
Der. The flowers, pansies, geranl-
ums, and others, were fresh and
bright, although theirjonrney across
the continent had occupied fifteen
days.
Omaha daily bee., 1877-01-20
MEDICAL.
Forest Tar,

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TOREST TAR TROCHES,
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TORE5T TAR SALVE.
or healing indolent sores, ulcers. cuts
burns. and for piles.
TOREST TAR SOAP,
4 or chapped hands, salt rheum. skin dis.
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FOREST TAR INHALERS,
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Omaha daily bee., 1877-01-20
Hard Times for New York Churches.

HarO Times LOT new YORK Churches.
From the Hartford Times.
New York pastors. with very few
exceptions, complain of the diff
Guilty of getting enough money to
pay the current expenses of their
churches, and many are obliged to
''shin around" as they say in the
street, to obtain cash (often by loan)
to square up on settling day. A
good deal OF the money loaned on
on church buildings by savinps
banks and insurance. companies is,
I think, rather unsafelv placed. I
know one church, with a congrega-
ton not over wealthy, which car
ries mortgages to the amount of
5000 The property would hardly
bring that amount if it were offered
by auction. Another church, still
less wealthy, 1s mortgaged for
$4,000.
Omaha daily bee., 1877-01-20

tbs Omaha Be- rays that q
councilman in that city has more
honor in his little finger than the
editor Of the Herald has i'm his whole
body. That looks like a personal
joke; but probably there is an hon
est councilman ~ Omaha. doub.fu
~ ~. may appear Lincoln DEM
Omaha daily bee., 1877-01-20
A TKIUMPH ron THE RIGHT.

TRIUMPH FOR THE RIGHT.
The people of Nebraska aud the
friends ofhonest government all over
the Union, are to be congratulated
upon the elimination of the great
political contest that has resulted in
the election OF Alvin Saunders 10
the United States Senate. No event
in the history of this common
wealth has been fraught with more
momentuous consequence.
The election of Alvin Saunders is
not, as it msy seem, a mere faction
al or personal victory-itjs the tri-
umph Of justice over lawlessness, of
truth over falsehood, and of hon
esty over corruption. 1t is a les
0 to the young, and aspiring
men of this State, teaching them
that the power of money
cannot always prevail however
potent it may seem for a time. 1t
demonstrates that. which begins
with wrong is sure to end in wrong
that Truth crushed to earth will
rise again. For six long years a
man who secured his seat against
the popular wish of The people
has used every means In his
power to obliterate all trac-
es of his corrupt acquisition and
like the guilty cuIprit who covered
his frat crime by the commission Of
another, so the occupant OF the
senatorial position soon to be
filled by Alvin Saunders found
l'mself IN the attitude of being
compelled to commit subsequent acts
repuguant to his sense Of Justice and
antagonistic to the interests of the
commonwealth, merely to silence
those who had been his acc0mplices
in the unlawful step which gave
him power.
Instead of being free to represent
aState as one OF its directors Ina the
national affairs of our government,
he was the slave of . merciless and
unprincipled lot of office seekers.
The people Of Nebraska can there
fore congratulate themselves upon
the new change which affairs have
taken.
Senator Saunders owes his posi-.
ton to no monied power, nor
has he obligated himself
by any pledges to make
any recommendations for Office.
He will be free to carry out the wish
es and subserve the interests Of his
constituency, untrammelled by cor.
rupt bargains, and u%ndisturbed by
the fears Of exposures. On this,
the successor of the present incum-
bent, as well as the citizens of
the State, are to be con.
graduated. His accession to the
high Office of Senator will mark a
new era In the political affairs of
Nebraska.