The frontier., May 12, 1881, Image 1

About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965

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VOLUME I. *
O’NEILL CITY, HOLT COUNTY,
All Kind* of Job Printing Promptly Executed.
SKA, THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1881.
NUMBER 42.
HEWS OF THE m ,
•' yomnoii irtrk
It j| understood that tha Qmi is die
Mgltoadopt Nprtceta mmiihi of aehar
— Tiforoni that BuerienAietcry has giv
en do nmpl« of Ibn.
The movement against tha Jems has
broken out in Argennu, Wot Prussia. A mob
led by a eehool-teaeher, wnokod thohinwof
'doom Jam pal maltreated the iniuetm
The Bosom peasantry destroyed tha
aynagogoa at Elisabethgrad, ia the Honk
ment of Kherson. Many of tha dotard wees
HIM by tha trap*. The llstartiaaia pw
•ototthaaopanUtioB regarding the tan*
litaa.
Bmall-pox is epidSlaio in London.
A terrible epidsmie, similar to typhm,
. la making gnat haras anoag the hoaaas of
Paris
Eighty persons warn drotrnad by tha
wreck of tha Brithh rteemrrTmraacC tha
coast of Saw Zealand.
President Chary has aeoepted, in fits
aaaaa of tha Ptaneh people, the lmttatteo of
tbs United States to taka part ia tha Xorktown
oalcbotlao next fall.
Women are now allowed to study and
taka degress ia tha Spanish aaieassitiaa.
The investigation into tha death of
Abdol Axis ebowe that a plot was eontepplated
for tha aacsaatnarioa of the Imperial Princes
aad the proohmstiaa of a new Oaliph.
A battle between 8,000 Albanians and
an many of Tnrke of equal strength resulted
In the defeat of tha former. The oomblned
losses were 1,800 killed and wounded.
Tbs arrest and incarceration in prison
. at John DUkm, Irish Member of Parliament,
-v gaedand annsnal ndtssnl thrnogdbet Ire
lend.
Fresh excesses against the Jews hare
been committed in Argenan, Wert Praesia.
The snti-Jewish riot in Elixsbetbgrad, Buseix,
proves to hare been a mere terioui affair than
was firat reported. Two hundred perseae were
injured.
I Vigel, n bootmaker in Vienna, killed
his wife and four children aad out them in
pieces.
* Edwin Booth achieved an immense
soeoaes in hie grant ahsraeter of Othello, In
A opjnmitteeof the International Mod
•tsrj Conference, la session U Pub, adopted
two lists of questions to bs submitted u a bails
for discussion. Greet cordiality prevails smong
tbs delegatee.
More than 12,000 oonTiot* are await
h( transportation to Siberia, in Buasii.
Turtey has unconditionally accepted
the aofiutianof the frontier question arranged
.by the powers. J .
The Britiah war sloop Doterel was
blown op on the Sfilh of April in the Straits of
Magellan. She had 1M officers and men, of
whom only eleven were saved.
Maapero, the Egyptian explorer, baa
opcDodactoe qmre'V .the Sskbara pyramids,
and olamil to nre discovered texts which com
pletely upset the Masonic theory of the religions
belief in the days of the Kings of the fifth dv
xte anti-Jewish excitement is spread
ing in Buaeia. At Smela, Korssnm, Omen and
Litin the Hebrew inhabitants have been threat
ened, and Uw Russian Government hss d:s
. patched troops to all theeo points to restrain
the intolerant and bigoted inhabitants.
The committee appointed to arrange
* a programme for the Monetary Conference et
Paris agreed upon that drafted by Yrolik, the
Dutch delegate. It oonslsta of flee questions
relative to the oause and effect of diminntion
and oecillation in tho value of silver; the effect
of nnljmHed ooinage of both gold and silver
nponthdr^tabilitv j: measures to reduoe the
miniaMm of oscillations is the rqpe of value
between the two metals; and, finally, as to
what that ratio should be.
Farther information regarding the
catastrophe to the British war-sloop, Dottrel
la to the effect that eight offloers and IBB men
were tailed, and three officers and fourteen men
**'A*Paris dispatch says that a delegate
Of the revolutionary committee stated to the
Osar the demauds of the Nihiliata, and waa re
warded by arrest.
The peasants of the Baltic provinces
of Bossia demand absolute ownership of the
lands now held on lease.
Herr Moat, the publisher of the Fret
toil, has been indicted at London for inciting
to murder. The Grand Jury added a rider to
the bin, stating that such publications ere un*
*"g»«b and ought to be vigorously dealt with.
The National Land League of Orest
Britain has issued a manifesto relative to the
arrest of Dillon. It is signed by Justin Mc
Carthy. It urges Irishmen to evict their land
lords as they have themselves been evicted,
and to wreak vengeanoe at the polls on the
apostates from Liberalism whom they helped
to raise to power.
At the second plenary Bitting of the
monetary oonforenoe In Paris the series of
questions repotted by the committee sms
adopted ee the programme. The delegates for
Germany,* Austria, England, India, Canada,
Greeoe, Portugal, Sweden end Switzerland ex
plained the views of their respective Govern
ments. The speech of the German delegate
was ordered printed and distributed among the
maulers of the oonforenoe, ee it contained
■tat Bents of the highest importance.
There will benomorepublio executions
in Busa n,. ,
DOMESTIC PrTBLUQPfOE.
The Qinrd elevator in Philadelphia,
and several vanboaaaa in the TiointtJ, van de
stroyed by Ora. The lose vaa •600,000.
Royal 8. Oarr, ocnuicted of murdering
W. W. Muroommnck, wa 7, 1878, vaa banged
at mndaor, Yt «•
John W. Mintnrn, one of tha famona
ahippan of Hew York, killed himself with a
revolver in Ua private office. As bo bad large
means and bappy domaalia relations, tba deed
la attributed to temporary inaaaity.
John M. Franoia has solatia interest
in tba Troy Timet on tba basis of 8280,000 for
tba establishment ; • • -
Mias Fannie J. Blanchett, of New
York, aged Si, died from load poisoning, caused
by tbs use of ooimaUoa
Two men were killed and seven in
Jniddby the fall of a building in Littleton,
a h£
The Chief of Polioe of Aabura, N. T.,
resigned because a negro was placed upon tbt
tawbiien a Cbinaae laandxyman to insanity
by their ruiachieroua tricks.
Jbmea M. Hoove), of New Jersey, who
it a nomination for Yloe President on the
UckM'vith Horace Oieflay, baa been oouricted
of obtaining 8650 on falae pretenses. He made
an appeal for mercy.
live Directors of the First National
Bank of Newark, N. J., bare boon indicted for
““•piring and aiding tba falailcationof books.
■At the annual meeting of the Civil
Barrios Reform Association iu New York George
• William Curtis was reflected President.
The situation at KaanpaCit7,.onthe
aoth pft^'waa tenfWo. The Missouri rtvrf
•ontmad to rise at aa alarming rata, and all
tba alar*tori and tba great packing honme
ware currounded by water. Of tba tan rafl
toada running into tha dty but three wars able
•to sand oat trains over their own track, tbs
Chicago arid Alton abuse running their Kaatarn
trains direct from tba Union depot Fully
7,000 people asm homeless, and many
of than* ’ had lost everything , they
poeeeeeed in the world. Boi-oara, railway de
pot*, teats and everything that ooold be used
for abettor wan bftag yoainf lato amice, yet
West,
thousands van eompeltod to sleep in tbo open
air mi depend npon dmiiy tot food* Maey
of tbo bonno bad boon moved to taflvsy
mekj, bnt oeranl bad gono dovn tonaaa, and
man wen expected to follow. IbeHendhel
raUwsj bridge, which ooet *1^00,000, wea in a
perilous eitnaiion.
A horrible tragedy i» reported from
St. Fool. Howard county, Hob. Hra. Koeb,
tbo wife of Obriatian Kooh, a railroad night
ratebnan, while laboriiy under a fit of taaa
porsry inanity, killed her throe children by
eating their throat* with a naor and than cot
bar own throat One boy waa t yean old, the
econd boy waa 2 yean and the third child a
rirl aged 6 months.
Col. James H. Bowen, in'former years
one of the leading apirita in tbo boainaoa cir
eko of Chicago, waa killed the other day fay be
ipgtbrpwn from a baggy.
f A convention of delegatee from tM
land Leagues of Ulinoia waa bald in Ohioago,
and a State organization fonned to perpetuate
the agitation in Ireland and KnglanA The as
sociation pledgod itaelf to raiao tbia year $250,
000 or man to aid tbo oonao.
• Fire destroyed M. Froet t Co.'a wood
en ware works and Cron la Bros.’ tannery, in
Detroit, causing a lose of about $100,000.
Sitting Ball ia only forty miles from
Fort Buford, but declares that ha will not star,
render. It ia charged that his emissaries an
trying to Induoe the young bucks to loon tbo
agency and join him.
A train on the 'Western Pncillo road,
when near Hayward’s, Oat, killed five children
of a family named Mabaa. .
A number of mining eapitaliate of
San Francisco have left for the sllnr mount
ain reported to have been dtoeonnd in Alaska
by sailors. Soma specimens hays assayed'from
g2,0CO to 08,000 per ton.
: f 'fihe portieulars of the ekeepe of Billy
Bonn-jv, alias “ Billy tha Kid," from the Lin
coln county (New Mexico) jail raid like a
chapter from one of Ned Buntline’a blood
onrdling narmtiree. Robert Olinger end J. W.
Deli were the two guards. Olinger had gone -
Ic supper, and Bell was atting on the floor
when tha "Kid" approached him, talkiagjo
hint in a pleasant way.' Being neat enough,
the “ Kid," who was hcar.ly shackled and
handcuffed, managed to jump at Bell, bitting
him with the handcuffs on the head, fracturing
Bell’s skull, and laying him senseleae on the
ground. Then, snatching Ball's revolver from
ms belt, he shot him in tha breast. Olinger,
' sad ran from the house, when he had barn
eating supper, about serenly-flve yards from
che Jail, toward that structure. Just aa he
entered a small gate leading through the
jail fenoe, the “Kid" shot him from up
, stairs with a double-barreled shotgun, heavily
charged, filling his breast full of ehot, killing
him instantly. The Kid then got a hatchet,
knocked off his shackles and handcuffs, made
» man in the jail-yard saddle a horn for him,,
.took a Winchester rifle and four revolvers frotn
the arms in the Jail, and rode out Subse
quently ha encountered a man named Mal
oont trial, and killed him.. He also murdered
another man he mot on the road against whom
he bore t grudge. The young deeper ado is be
lieved to have fled to Moslem v
The first vessel to pass through the
straits of Mackinaw this season was the pro
peller Garden City, which arrived at Alpana
from Chicago on the 4th of May.
The indications of on outbreak among
the Ctee were sufficiently serious to aauao the
dispatch of six cavalry com pa nisi from the
contiguous forts to White rivet.
Eighty-four thousand immigrants ar
rived in Chicago last month, and were distrib
uted in different directions.
Hon. Ansel Briggs, the first Governor
of Iowa, died the other day at Omaha.
There were 984 deaths in Chicago last
month.
The State’s Attorney at Louisville has
orought suits for *880 against the Louisvills
,ud Nashville railrosd, for running trains sad
. mploying men on Sunday.
John Gothord was hanged at Town
seutown, Md., for the murder of Joseph
Woods, in Deoembar last Mirshall Baiter
(colored) wss executeo at onanoiw, n. xe, lur
the murder of Bobert Hennegan, In January of
this year.
Louis Redman, colored, was hanged
at Hazlohurst, Miss., for the murder of his
fathtr-in-law.
Gen. John 8. Preston, e prominent
citizen of South Carolina, and Chief of the
Rebel Conscription Bureau during the War of
the Rebellion, la dead.
A shocking murder is reported from
the Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory. 'A man
named Amota and a neighbor killed John Dry,
a half-breed, to get possession of two gallons
of whisky ho had. They shot him three timet
in the bead, stabbed him tea times, and severed
the bead from the body. They than oonoealed
the remains.
A freic ht train on the Texas Pacific
railway went through a bridge near Dallas.
The engineer was killed, and the fireman, con
ductor and brakemaa were injured. Another
wreck on the same road caused the death of
two man and the wounding of e third.
South.
political ponm.
, At ft Cabinet meeting in 'Washington,
tbe other day, it mi determined by the admin
istration io lead encouragement to the Hshone
moTcment in Virginia by ft liberal distribution
of Federal patronage.. .
The Republican canons committee at
Washington, heeded by Senator Dams, waited
upon President Garfield and sagged the
withdrawal of Judge Robertson's nomination,
in the interest of harmony, to which the Presi
dent replied, with some warmth, that no inch
proposition could be entertained.
senator Sherman is opposing the con
firmation of Sheldon for Qoreraor of Hew
Mexico. Sheldon was an Ohio delegate to the
Chicago Oonrenhon opposed- to Bhtrmin's
nomination.
BepresentatiTe Baker, of Indiana, is
reported as saying that if the Western Repre
sentatives will only ooms to an agreement they
can elect s Speaker from amoog themselves
without doabt.
Capt. Paul Boytoo, who was in the
Peruvian service and waa captured by the
Chilians, made bis esesps and. baa arrived
safely in Sow lark.; •>? ~ ; ■'
Prof. Chandler, of New York, pro*
Dooncofl oleomargarine laperior in all respect*
to the poorer grade* of dairy butter:
Tbe promotera of the proposed rail
way tunnel under the St. Lawrenoe hive secured
(3,900,000 in New York, and have gons to
Quebec to have the Bxeentivs issue a procla
mation to commence the work,
A meeting of the National Committee
of the National-Greenback party has bam
called to meet at the Laclede Hotel, fat BL
Louis, oe ttW Ttfa Of Jsnt,
Grubb#, Bepublicsn, b# be« Mai
Mayor of inaiM»pH« by fill majority, lb#
Utkjatta municipal al action resulted in lb#
■raw of MeOinley, Draoontk candidate for
Mayor. The new Mayor elect of Hannibal,
Mou, la a Democrat The Council is Republi
can. < f '
! WAJHDfOTOX KOTSS.
Umn aro oror 3,000 application* for
Consulships nowon file at the State Depart.
Beat in Waahington. There an about 17ft
Ooneniatee all told, and then an only about,
half a doaen moandea.
Attorney Genera) MaoYeagh has been,
tnetrnoted to obtain fadietiwte against tin
meeabeas of the rfar-ctmte stag, and- more'm
aunule win take plaoe lar the oontraeS’diTiidoD
Of the FoetoMoo Department.
During the'month of April $8,8^000
worth ofaasMa and half nglaaSir. wtasAuw
the Tariooa United Statee Dilute. Only 3,300,
000 eilTer dollara wan ooioed during the aame
period.
Only United Btatea notea will herre
after be reoeiYcd by the Tnaeury Department
ae security for the redaction of natioHal-bank
circulation or the redemption of notea.
- * The public-debt statement issued
May 1 ie as follows i
Six per cent bond*.
F1y» per cents..
Four end one-half per cent*
Four per cec is..
Refunding certificates..
Nary pension fond.......#.
1 108,378,600
456,022,830
, 900,000,000
, 738,623,700
790,100
14,000,000
Tntsl coin bonds.......$l,««l74MfiO
Matured debt.0,704,665
Legs! tenders....... «.... #46,741,646
Certificates of deposit... 8,993,000
Fractional currency. 7,110,048
Odd end sUvar certifi
cates. 06,642,740 % i -
419,794,433
Total without Interest. Is'
Total debt....,
Total Interest....
Cash In treasury.
.93,060,3 <8,648
.. 17,955,241
.. 333,731,196
Debt less cash In treasury.11,864,072,803
Decrease during April. ..... 0,690,900
Decrease since June 30, 1880........... 78,099,701
Current liabilities—
Interest due and unpaid..9 2,710,793
Debt on which interest has cessed. 6,704,866
Interest theieon. 730,740
Gold aud silver certificates. 66,642,740
UnltedStates notes held for redemption \
of certificates of deposit. 8,295,000
Cteh balance available May 1,1881—.. 169,647,357
Total. ........$ 233,731,196
Available asset#
Cash h^ treasury. .9 333,731,196
Bonds issued to Padflc railway oompan- ■ j
tee, interest payable in lawful money,
principal outstanding.9 64,623,512
Interest accrued and not yet paid. 1,292,470
Interest paid by United States.. 49,528,566
interest repaid by companies—
Interest repaid oj transportation of
mail#. 14,247,370
By cash payments of 5 per cent of net
earnings.. 655,798
Balance of interest paid by the United
States....I.... 34,625,992
The Commissioners of the Freednien’s
Bank have on hand over 9100,000 of unclaimed
dividends.
The October term of the Supreme
Court has adjourned. The number of ca*e«
now remaining on the docket undisposed of is
837, an increase of forty-six since the close of
the previous October term.
Mtafir.T.T. A STROPg GUBAKIKOS. '
The Northern Pacific managers will
mr.ke no compromise with Henry Villard, in
volving the cancellation of 818,000,000 of stock
recently issued, and have refused to listen to
his demand for two directorships.
The force of the current of immigra
tion flowing toward our ports is shown by the
arrival of 60,000 persons at New York during
April.
A new comet was discovered by Prof.
Lewis 8wift, Director of the Warner Observa
tory, at Rochester, N. Y.
Sixty thousand immigrants arrived at
New York daring April, and, daring tho year
1880, 593,703 immigrants landed ofl our shores.
Washington telegrams state that “ the
lotter which the star-route nng threaten to
publish unless the investigation be stopped is
addreeaod to Jay Hubbell, who was Chairman
of the Republican Congressional Committee.
It is said to have been written in reply to one
from Hubbell stating that Gen. Brady would
not assess the star-route contractors without
Gen. Garfield’s consent. Gen. Garfield wrote
| b -ckthat he hoped Brady woald do all In htt
power to facilitate the raising of funds neces
sary to meet the expenses of the campaign.”
Leonard’s boiler-works, at London,
Ont, have been destroyed by fire. The low is
960,000.
The annnal report of the Michigan.
Central railway shows that the road enjoyed a
xosperous year. The gross earnings were
*0,C8J,748._
doings nf "congress.
Kr. Farley, of California, spoke for some
Hums on ths opening of the Senate cm Monday, Kay
2, called attention to the large number of nomina
tions awaiting action, and moved to go into execu
tive seraion. The people of hla State, of ell political
parties, were appealing to the Senate to ooneider Im
portant matters in which they were directly inter*
rated. Petition* were daily ooming from California
easing for consideration of the Chinese treaty. A
debate ensued between Messrs. Dawes and Farley,
tlio Chinese 'mention receiving considers We atten
tion. Afterward a few remark* were made by
Messrs. Book and Salisbury, and the Sen
ate adjourned. The Republican Caucus Com
mittee. com-lsting of seven Senator*, met and
■greed on a report They recommend that execu
tive sessions 1 «e held Immediately to transact busi
ness in the following order: First to refer to the
appropriate committees all nominations now on the
table; second, to bike action on the various treaties
awaiting ratification; third, to consider all nncon
tosted nominations, that la, such as are uot objected
to by any Republican Senator from the State to
which the appointment belongs. When this pro
gramme is completed the contested nominations
may be considered.
In the Senate, Mr. Daria, of West Virginia,
made the first speech of the day on Tuesday, May
3, defending bis State upon the debt question, and
was followed by several other Senators upon the
same subject. The Republicans were willing to ad
journ early for the purpose of caucusing oil the
holding of executive sessions.
In accordant with tho decision of the Re
publican caucus, Mr. Dawee moved that the Senate
go Into executive session, on Wednesday, May 4, the
motion being unanimously adopted. The following 1
appointments were then unanimously confirmed:
Robert Hitt, of Chicago, for Assistant Secretary of
State; ex-Cougreasmaa Hiram Price, ot Iowa,
for Commissioner of Indian Affair*; A. M.
Jones for United States Marshal of the Northern
(Chicago) district of Illinois; Sanford A. Hudson, of
Wisconsin, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
of Dakota; Joseph O. Jones aa Postmaster at Terre
Haute, Jnd ; W. H. Craig for roetmaster at Albany,
N. Y. The other nominations were referred to the
appropriate committees, and the Senate then began
the consideration of the Chinese treaties. Senator
Hoar opposed the ratification of the treaty on the
ground that it la opposed to the genius of
our institutions and to the general doctrine the
44 troth erbord of man.” Senators Mil or and Farley
and the other Pacific coast Senators strongly nrge
the ratification of the treaty on the ground that it
gives the United States Government full control
over tha immigration of the Celestials. The PreaJ-.
(Smt nominated Elliot C. Jewitt, of Missouri, to be
Asaajer in charge of the Assay Office at St Louis.
The Senate in executive session did a remark
ably good day’s work, on Thursday, the 5th Inst
Both Chinese treaties were ratified by all but unani
mous votes; also, an extradition treaty with tbs
United States of Colombia, and treaties with Italy,
Morocco and Japan. The Senate also confirmed
eighty-four nominations, of which the following are
the most important: William Walter Phelps, New
Jersey, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo
tentiary to Austria; Cortx Fessenden, of Borne,
Mich., United States Surveyor General for Dakota;
Richard W. Montgomery, Receiver of Public Moneys
for Bloomington, Neh.; Gelden M. Bronson, Poet
■Mr tot Meuita, WH,; Monel A, eOckloa, «f
Ohio, Governor of Now Mexleo TmHifey;
S. Meyer, United 8t*U* Attorney tern the
district of Ohio; Henry Fink, United SUti Manb*l
f<« the Eastern distaiet of Wieooorfn; Themes W«*
•on, of the District of Colmmbia, Consul •»
John F. Jenne, of Now Jersey, Consul atNusro Lore*
d~>; E. C. Jewett, United States Assayer it
Survey on of Customs—Joseph L. Gaston, of Chat
tanooga: John R. Leonard, of Indianapolis. Ind.
Collector of Internal Revenue—Marcus Boggs,
Eleventh district of Ohio. Bsffisten bfLandOf
flcee—William Letcher, at MJtchsS, ©state;*■»
P. Oweee, at Taylor’s Falls, Minn.; Charles B. Ty
Ur, at Tracy, Minn.; Thomss H. OavanaogK at
OberUn, Kan.; Christopher H. Smith, Worthington.
M nu. Beoeiveraof Public Moneys—John Lind, at
Tracy, Minn.; Charles K. Chandler, at OberUn, Kan.
A message was received from the President with
drawing the following names, who are regarded as
friends of Senator Conkllng: StawartI*. Woodford,
United gtaies Attorney for the Southern dletrlet;
Ae> W. Tenney, United Steteu Attorney for tin
Eeetera dntriet; Inh T. U»rne, United Stitee.
ItctiheL for the Southern dletrlet; Clinton D. Mo
DonfnS, United Btetee Umbel for the northern
(Metriot; John Trier,MHeotorof Cnctome for thr
Dletrlet of nafTeie. President. airAeU n«niur'-'
n ... W ‘ Tin ten e m m of V.n T—■ ee ■ fleMvbrv A#
Geoig^jNjhgDyv«r New Jertey, Secret* 17 ofj
Boise City, Idaho.
SAHPIEIiD—CONKLI!fO.
Political Circlet In WiukloftMi K*-'
cited Over Use Withdrawal •* Uw
New York Nomination* -V
[Associated Press Telegram.]
The message of the President withdrawing
the New York nominations which are regarded
as belonging to tho stalwart wing of the party
is the only subject of public interest here.
Everybody is talking and speculating about it;
A Western Associated Press reporter, in seek
ing reliable information, saw representative
men of both sides. The President is
firm and determined. He baa been urged by
close friends for some time to take ag
gressive measures, but hesitated, hoping that
gome way of maintaining harmony in the party,
consistent with bis honor and dignity, might
be funnel. He conld not surrender any particle
of his executive prerogative, so be has held,
by withdrawing Robeztaon or consenting to
eny compromise. He expressed himself on all
occasions as anxious to do full justice to both
wingrt of the New York Republicans. When
Senator Gonkliug carried through the Republi
can canons his policy, whion was direcUy
antagonistic to that of the adminis
tration, with regard to Robertson, the Presi
dent felt compelled to take some action.
Vice President Arthur and Senator Platt were
at the White House this morning, by the Presi
dent’s request, and he talked frankly to them*.
When the President learned positively. that
nothing short of permitting Robertson’? norni
nation to lie unactfcd upon would satisfy Sep-:,
ator Conkling, he Informed Mr. Arthur what
he intended to do. When the message was opened
in the Senate Mr. Arthur was in.the Vice Presi
dent’s room, in the rear of the Senate
chamber. A Senator went in and told him of
the message. Arthur replied that he had been
expecting that mqssege.
Senator Hale Raid to-night that the President
ought to have taken tail-step several weeks
ago. The President’s purpose Is declared to he
to till all the New York Federal offices with
men who will not fight the administration for
Conkling. He does not intend to make war on
Coukling in New York, but at the same time he
will not put power in Conkliog’s hands for him
to use against the administration.
When the message was read in the Fenate
Cockling was reading a paper and did not look
up. He khe.v beforehand what it was. Ipis
friends, who hare talked with him to-night,
say he is not dismayed; that he is confident.
the stalwarts will rally closer around ; that Im
considers the message as an implied wrnruinmkc
Republican Senators that if they don’t
for Robertson their patronage will .be c
and that “ honorable Repnolwan Senator?oaf 1
be bulldozed in that wav.” ’ f
Senators generally agree that this forces fKT”
fight on Rohoitson’s nomination, and thos
wno are for Robertson claim he will be con
firmed next week and that be will get. not less
than forty-five votes. The President’s aggres
sive stand has had the effect of bring n? waver
ing Democratic Senators to hi# side. Toe dem
ocrats all applaud the President's course, and
one of the most experienced Senators on thfct
tide said to-i<ia»hfc that not over three Dtmo
cratic votes will be fast against Robertson.
Another effect haa teeu to make Republican
» Senators speak out more freely, as each feels
that he mast tqpport his side of this issue.
Republicans who warmly espouse one side or
the other talk of the injury the fight wilt do to
the party in New York, bnt coolor heads point
to the former contest with the New York Cus
tom House, and predict that this one will ter
minate similarly; that the defeated side will
submit, and no great break in the party will be
caused.
[Telegram to Chicago Inter Ocean.]
Henceforward Mr. Conkling and his followers
may be relied upon to fight the administration,
and the President has thrown down the gage of
battle. *In conversation with an intimate
friend of the President, who speaks by author
itv, the reasons which impelled the President to
withdraw lho nominations were given. 1 his -.eu
tieman said: “1 he President has not taken this
step without deliberation. It iB in no spirit of re
venge that he has rivalled the names of Mr.
Conkling’s friends. The caucus had decided
not to consider the nomination of Mr. Robert son.
He alone of all the New York nominations was
singled out for destruction. It it uo secret that
as soon as the present executive business is
disposed of the Senate will adjourn sine die,
or the members will go away and leave
the Sonate without a quorum. Mr. Conkling
would have had his friends installed in office
and the one man representing the independent
element in State politics would have beou laid
aside until next winter. The question was ore
of Senatorial courtesy versus executive right.
By withdrawing the nominations of Mr. Conk
ling’s friends tne President has putjsll the va
cant offices in the State on an even footing. All
Conkling’s men will go in the same boat with
Mr. Robertson." . i
A Dear Husbaud.
Marrowfat got up unusually early the
other morning, and his wife asked him if
he would go ont and bny some eggs for
breakfast, as she had forgotten to order
any the night before. Feeling unusually
good-natured, he answered in the affirm
ative.
“But,” said Mrs. M., “don’t go to the
grocer’s; they charge twenty-five cents a
dozen for them there, and they Were only
twenty-two cent# at the butter and egg
store yest rday.”
Marrowfat said nothing, bnt a quiet
smile played round the corners of his
mouth as he put on his hat and went out
of the door. When he returned his lov
ing spouse queried:
“Eggs the same price trfday, my
dear?"
‘■‘Well,” replied pater familiae,
“these cost me thirty-two cents.”
“ Why, Mr. Marrowfat, what do you
mean ?” aqked she.
“ The grocer’s is next door, the butter
and egg store quarter of a mile away; I
rode down and back; the cheapest things,
my love, are sometimes the dearest,”
chirped Marrowfat as he buried his head
in the morning paper.—Boehm Cour
ier.
Pentateuch is the collective name of
the first five books of the Old Testa
ment. For centuries the Pentateuch
was generally received, in the church,
as. written by Moses. Differences in
style and apparent repetitions to be
found in different parts of Genesis and
the first chapters of Exodus led emi
nent critics to suppose that, in the com
pilation of the book, written documents
of an earlier date had been made use of.
The Mosaio authorship of the Penta
i tench is defended by many theologians,
who hold that any other supposition is
! inconsistent with the plenary inspiration
at the Bible. Bnt some of these writers
admit that, beside the account of the
death and burial of Moses, some words
and sentences <may have been interpo-,
lated at a later period. Other theologi
ans hold that the documentary theory
is inconsistent with the divine-authority
and inspirstioB of the writings attrib*
The Pentateuch.
MATIOH of ccocds.
•Wets Im Pkystcal ld«n<
MaM thiim which ionni
tain streams? Observation
to answer tha question,
not coma from a dear sky.
frtm cloud*. Bat what are
la there nothing yon am ae
with which they resemble?
rer at once a likeness between
the. condensed (team o( a iooo
\t every puff ot the engine a
ojectedinto the air. Watoh
ily j yon notice that it
at a little distance froth the
ftumel. Give doee attention,
11 aometimea aee a perfectly
between the frmniel and the
Through that clear apace* the
makes the dond must pass.'
i» thI»-thJhg~which atone
the ndxt moment Visible
opaque cloud t
It is the steam or Taper of water from
the boiler. Within the boiler this steam
is' transparent and invisible; but to
keep it in thifl'inviitbte state a heat
would be required a» great as-that with
in the boiler. When the vapor mingles
with the cold air above the hot fnnnel it
ceases to be vapor. Every bit ot steam
shrinks, when chilled, to ;a much more
minute particle of water. The liquid
particles thus produced form a kind of
water-dust of exceeding fineness, which
floats in the air. This is a cloud. Watch
the cloud-banner from the fnnnel of a
locomotive; yon see it growing gradual
ly less dense. - It finally melts away al
together ; and, if yon continue your ob
servations, yon will not fail to notice
that the speed of its disappearance de
pends upon the character of the day.
In humid weather the cloud hangs long
and lazily in the air; in dry weather it
is rapidly licked np. ^JThat has become
of it? It has been reconverted into
true invisible vapor.
The drier the air, and the hotter the
air, the greater is the amount of cloud
which can be thus dissolved in it When
the cloud first forms, its quantity is tar
greater than the air is able to maintain,
m on invisible state. .But as the olond
mires gradually with n larger mass of air
it is more and more dissolved, and finally
passes altogether .from the condition of
j a finely-divided liquid into that, of irons
I parent vapor gaB.
Make the lid of a kettle air-tight,"tmd
permit the steam to issue from the pipe;
a cloud is precipitated in aiL respects
similar to that issuing from the funnel of
the locomotive. _
Permit the steamas it issues from the
pipe to pass through the flame of a spir
it-lamp, the blond is instantly dissolved
by the heat, and is not again precipi
tated. With a special boiler and a special
nozzle, the experiment may be made
more striking, but not more-instructive,
than with the kettle.
, iook to your bedroom windows when
ajSjreather is very cold outside; they
CTCntfmes stream with water deriVed
a I condensation of the aqueous
i juijSpioin yonr own. lungs. The win
aJT Railway carriages iu winter show
L V- mdensafion in a striking manner.
% #vp cold water into a dry drinking-glass
ti summer's day; the outside surface
if the glass becomes instantly dimmed
. by the precipitation of moisture. On a,
warm day yon notice no vapor in front
of your mouth, but bn a odd day you
form there a little clond derived from
the condensation of the aqueous vapor
from the lungs.
Ton may notice in a ball-room .that as
the door and windows are kept closed,
and the room remains hot, the air re
mains clear; but when the doors or win
dows are opened, a dimness is visible,
caused by the precipitation to fog of the
aeneous vapor of the ball-room. If the
weather be intensely cold, the entrance
of fresh air may even cause snow to fall.
This has been observed in Bussian ball
rooms, and also in the subterranean
stables at Erzeroom, when the doors are
opened and the cold mornAg air is per
mitted to enter.
Even on the driest day this vapor is
never absent from the atmosphere. The
vapor diffused through the air of a room
may be congealed to hoar frost in your
presence. This is done by tilling a ves
sel with a mixture of pounded ice and
salt, which is condensed and freezes the
aqueous vapor. The surface of the ves
sel is finally coated with a frozen fur,
so thin t hat it may be scraped away and
formed into' a snow-ball. _
To produce the cloud, in the case of
the locomotive and the kettle, heat is
necessary. By heating the water, we
first convert it into steam, and then, by
chilling the steam, we convert it into
cloud. Is there any fire infeture which
produces fte clouds of our atmosphere t
There is, the fire of the sun.
; Thus, by tracing backward without
any break in the chain of occurrences,
our river from its end to its real begin
nings, we come at length to the son.
• A French Farmer.
The lot of a French farmer is neither
happy nor jolly. He fares frugally cn
soup and the thinnest of ordinary red
■wide or cider. The stock of his soup is
bacon, and he eata butcher’s meat on’y
twice a week—that is on Sunday and
market-day. When he attends market
ho makes' a succulent dejeuner and
drinks a good deal of beer at the cofc.
This is his only cheerful time; at ordin
ary seasons he is morose, troubled aliout
the weather, the conscription which is
going to take his son in the army, and
about politics, of which he understands
just enough to be in consfcaqj; dread of
revolutions. He is conservative; that is
to say ho upholds the government o! the
day, whatever it is, for fear of anarchy ;
but no government is popular with him,
for every administration finds it neces
sary to lay on new taxes. The climate,
however, is in his favor. A bail-harvest
is not a common thing in France, and a
succession of bad harvests never occur.
It is ljicky for the French farmer that
this is so, for there are few French
landlords .who would be in a position
to remit any part of a year’s rent after a
bad harvest The rule in France is that
farmers’rent must be paid as punctually
ts lodgers’ rent If it be not paid,
ejection is resorted to at once, and no- •
body thinks of looking upon the tenant
aa an ill-used man. _■
Chicago Eloquence.
“ Eloquent 1” said the Chicago lawyer
fit his partner. “ He’s able to reason
the kick out of a mule. Why, here a
while ago business was dull, and he de
cided that Mrs. Dasher ought to have a
divorce, and he’d go into court and get
it for her, and then charge her for it
Somehow she heard what was going on.
She galloped down to the Court House
to stop him, as she didn’t want a di
vorce. She got. there just as he was
making his plea for her. And. mind
you, she was mad at him, but, by Jove,
sir, she listened to him five minutes and
becanm so convinced that she ought to
have iftdivoroe that she walked right up
jury could see her and ebed
three pints of tear* while he recited her
wronga.' And when he won ' the eaae
she embraoed him and said he should
conduct all her divorce eases. I call
that eloquence ” . ' _ ..
A Lazy Kan’s Defense.
Not. a thousand miles from St. An*
Sumy, Minn.—and not very many yean
ago a certain physician, bom New
Hampshire, went to work getting up
.and organizing a Lazy Man's dab, end
he had good suooesa. The dab was
duly constituted; its by-laws adopted t
and, chief of all, its larder looked after.
The chief law—really the law that
formed the distinctive feature of the
dob—was this: Any member who
, should he proved guilty of having been
in e hhny—1. «.; bf having allowed any
thing under the sun to cause him la
hasten a movement ol body or mind—
. should be ftnelan amount .sufficient.fo
■ pay for asuppec for "the dub.- r -
The first man accused, and bronght
forward for trial, was the President and
Organizer of the dnb himself — Dr.
Haskett Eastman.- The court was dfdy
organized; the complaint read; snathe
witnesses summoned. It was proved—
first—that a boy was seen to call at East
man’s office door and deliver a message;.
an-1 it was known that said-messenger
reported on that occasion, a case of sick
ness, and begged that the doctor would
make haste. Next—it was proved by
several reliable witnesses that Dr. East
man was seen, very shortly after the de
livery of that message, driving through
the dty "like lightning I” which plainly
signified that he was in a tremendous
hurry. Aye, dearly enough, he had
willfully violated the fundamental law of
the society 1 -
’ But Eastman called witnesses in his.
own behalf. He called tfto grooms, -
both of whom swore that the horse which
he used on that dcCasionwas a head
strong, hard-bitted, high-mettled beast,
that wonld “streak it off. like blazes
if ye’d only let her.”
And Dr. Eastman claimed that be had
not hurried an atom. His horse had
- hurried, but not he. In no way, manner
or shape had he made any haste.
But,” said the Judge Advocate,
“ you could have held that horse in—
you could have prevented the beast from
testing away in such a hurry ?” -
: “Certainly. I could have done that
very easily.
“ And why'didn’t you doit?" '
“Why—didn’t—I—do—it!" The
doctor repeated the words in amazement,
“ Do it! Hold in my horse? What are
yon thinking of ? Had I done that, yon
might -well hare mulcted me; but 1
didn’t. The fact was—I wag too lazy to.
do it. 1 I was just that lazy, torpid, su
pine and utterly lifeless, on that occa
sion, that the headstrong beast might
have killed me, and I wouldn’t have put
forth effort euough to hold her in 1”
We will simply add that the club did
not get a supper at their President’s ex
pense on that occasion.—New York
Ledger. ■_
The Origin of Ball Ofcmes.
The history of the ball games, which
commences in the spring months of the
year, would carry us back a very long
way, for the origin of ball play dates from
beyond history itself, and traces of it are
to be found in almost every nation on the
face of the globe. It is even supposed
that it had a deep smybolicnl meaning
when first played in the spring of the
year, and that the tossing of the ball waB
intended first to typify the upspringing
of the life of nature after the gloom of
winter. And whether this was the case
among the people of antiquity or not, it
is a remarkable fact the ecclesiastics of
the early Church adopted this symbol,
and gave it a very special significance by
meeting id thS churches on Easter day,
and throwing up a ball from hand to hand
to typify the resurrection. This, whioh
was done originally os a kind of religious
observance, soon denegrated it to a mere
custom, and had to be discontinued, as
it caused much disorder; but it will ac
count for the fact that games at ball are
supposed to oommenoe properly at Eas
ter.
In England these games of ball have
always been exceedingly numerous.
“ Stoolball,” a game played by two per
sons Beated on stools, who throw the ball
from one to the other Ih a peculiar fash
ion, is alluded to by many of the old
writers; and the games of trapball and
rounders are of remote antiquity. But
perhaps the most popular as well as the
most ancient game was tennis. This
sport was classical—at least hand tennis
Was—and was doubtless played when
Homer wrote, and it certainly was popu
lar when Horace satirized toe “ swells”
of his period. As one of the most ancient
games of Christendom, it perhaps came
down to us from the monks, who fol
lowed the harmless pastime in their clois
ters, which made capital tennis courts.
But it would seem that women and girls
played, as well as men and boys, for as
long ago as 1424 there was a young lady
in Paris named Margot, who played
both with the palm and the back of the
hand, and was. the champion of the
game.—The Bog’s Own Newspaper.
Fanny.
One is rery fortunate if he has wit
enough to get out of a funny dilemma
without being laughed at. The poor
Teutonic musician of whom the follow
ing story is told by a Southern doctor of
divinity was not one of these fortunate
ones. *
The doctor was pastor of a fine city
church. The organ loft and choir gal
lery were immediately in the rear of thi
pulpit, and a little elevated above it.
The organist was a German, who, though
a fine performer, was not remarkable
for presence of mind, and was easily
disconcerted.
The hour for afternoon service had ar
rived, and, though the organist was in
his place, the choir had not arrived. By
some mishap, also, the key of the organ
had been misplaced.
The minister, not knowing these
facts, solemnly arose, and, after an
nouncing a hymn and reading it, took
his seat. There was no response from
the organ or choir. Silence reigned su
preme.
The minister and congregation became
uneasy. All eyes were turned to the
organ-loft.
At length the organist, with a fidgety
manner and a very red face, came to
the railing in front of the loft, and in a
tone intended as a whisper, but which
1 was distinctly heard by all; made the
following startling announcement:
“Mist r breecher, mister breecher,
ve von’t have no singing dis afternoon.
De key not coomed, and de lady vat
[ sings de sobrano bees not coombed, and
de rest of de people vat sings be not
i coonwr», rm£ 4s fesrar.pt obened,
and i. vG*8 JiS*S fiw dis after
noon, mister breecher, dat’s so.” The
effect may be readily imagined.
Loafzbs are generally after the loaY€S
end fishes. Afiff the losfefj ^rhat?
jCABIOT WTO.
Ska Scaur** at Um Nmiaary »•* Haw
WlMUIt.
' [Treat Um H«w lot* Tims*]
• Beside the character common to the
group known es exanthemata, acarlatina
la almost always attended by sore throat,
and the scarlet rash or eruption, which
gives the name to. the disease, breaks
oat as early as the seoond day after the
appearanoe of the fever, and ends on the
mxth or seventh day in the separation of
the cuticle. Nearly all medical writers
mention three varieties of the disease—
scarlatina simplex, in which scarcely any
throat trouble attends the fever and the
rash; scarletina anginoaa, in which*
throat trouble irmore prominent than in
either of the other affections, and scar
latina maligna, in which the system is
immediately overborne byrlhe violence
of the disorder^ and the patient'exhibits
.neat weakness and lota of.vitality.
The disease h rights with nhillin—) llini
tilde, headache, rapid pulse, dry, hot
skin, flushed face, loss of appetite and
furred tongue. ' Presently the' throat
feels irritated, grows red, and is often
swollen. The small joints of the rash
so increase that the skin soon seems al
most uniformly red, extending from the
face, neck and breast to the trunk and
extremities. The '.separation, of the
cuticle in the scales usually
ends in - a fortnight or more
from the declaration of the distemper.
The fever continues with the rash; is
sometimes accompanied with delirium,
even coma. In the malignant, or third
form, the rash comes out late and par
tially, being at times barely pereeptible.
At other times it may abruptly reoade,
or be mingled with livid spots. The
skin js cold, with feeble pulse and ex
treme prostration, and death may occur
—frequently from blood-poisoning—in a
few hours. In such oases the tongue is
dry, blown, tremulous; the throat is.
livid, swollen, ulcerated, * gangrenous;
breathing is impeded by viscid mucus
that oollects about the.fauces, and medi
cine avails little. Even in scarlatina
aflginosa there is considerable danger.
It may prove fatal from the inflamma
tion or effusion witlnn the head, or from ;
disorganization of the throat and slough
ing off of adjacent parts. Teeming
women are in imminent peril from the
mildest phase of the fever. When it
seems to be cored its. conseqnenoes are
haxardons. Children, to whom it is. main
ly confined, of course, arc subjeot after
a severe attack to permanent ill-health,.
and to some of the many forms
of chronic scrofula, as showq by boils,
sores behind the ears, inflammation of
the eyes, glandular swellings, and stru
mous ulcers. Scarlatina is often followed
by a peculiar dropsy, affecting the sub
cutaneous cellular- tissues and larger
serous cavities. It ocours, like all the
exanthemata, as an epidemic—some
times in very virulent type. In the
sijhple variety, remaining within doors,
non-stimulating diet and regulation of
the bowels are generally found sufficient.
In the second variety^ leeches are often
employed, especially whore delirium
supervenes. The two principal sources
Of danger in the malignant variety are
from the primary effect of the contagious
poison upon the body and from gangre
nous ulceration of the throat. The final
result is always uncertain. Whether it
is contagions throughout its course, or
at one period alone, has never been as
certained; but that the power of con
tagion remains in clothing, furniture,
etc., is unquestioned and unquestion
able. _■_.
Simon Cameron’s lint ueograpny.
Yesterday an old gentleman who
knows mucn of his early history gave
me one ineident as a specimen of how he
began life. “ Gen. Cameron’s mother,"
said the old friend, “ was a great woman.
She labored for her children with a zeal
and energy of which few beings are cap
able, and it was her teaching and ex
ample, as well as native mental force,
which marked the life of her boys with
those strong characteristics which have
enabled them to make their mnrk in
life. The old storekeeper in Maytown,
tire little hamlet in Lancaster conntv
where Gen. Cameron was bom,” said
myinformant, “of{en told of his struggle
for his first book in geography. He was
only 8 or 9 years old when he became
far enough advanced in elementary edu
cation to study geography, and he ap
proached the teacher with the desire of
his heart. The teacher promised if he
could get a book to put him in the mass,
but hpw to get that book was the ques
tion. It cost 91, and even pennies were
scarce in his home. He consulted his
mother, and they together planned for
the geography. She entered heartily
into her sou’s ambition.
“After three months of effort, enough
of the odds and ends of the economy
left from the daily demand for bread was
saved up. These were carried to the
country store by the boy who has since
written so strongly upon the pages of
his country’s political history. When
they were weighed and counted the mer
chant shook his head and said : * There
is only 73 cents’ worth, Simon, and the
book costs $1.’ As the boy thonght of
the straggle be had made to accumulate
what hq had brought, and still the prize
was far, away, the tears sprang to hie
eyes. The merchant relented, and, tak
ing -him by the shoulders, said : * Simon,
you are a good boy; you can have the
book, and you can pay me the other 27
cents when yon get it.’ He not only
lived long enough,” said his friend, to
pay* the 27 cents but to do the man who
thus served his childish ambition many
kindnesses.”—Philadelphia Press.
A Tery Fnnny Criticism.
The pass to which foreigners may/ be
led by mistaking so-called Americanisms
for the normal and habitual speech of
the country is well shown in the follow
ing edifying paragraph from Karl Faul
mann’s Illustrirte Cultur-QeechichU%
volume 1, page 134. The column headed
“Amerikanisch” is given in all earnest
ness as a specimen of the English spoken
in America, while under it is placed
what the anthor considers the correct
English equivalent. The italics are ours:
AMBRIKA5ISH.
I haf Ton fanny lcedle poy
Vot gomes senust to my knee,
Der queerest sc hap, der createst rogua,
A» efer you dit see;
lie runs a<id achumpa and scbmaachaa alnp
In all barts off der hauae—
But vot off dot? he va* my ton,
Mine leedle Yawcob Strauss.
ENGUSCH.
I hare «w»« fanny llttlo boy , ; "At
What games just to my knee,
The queerest thajte, the greatest regQ%
At er*-r you did see;
He run# and jump* and smashes thlagl
In all parta of tiio house
But what of that? he teat my VMif
My little Jacob Btrauas.
Manners.
It is net mistaken politeness for a
young gentleman to lift his hat to ladies
he has known ‘for years, and it wonld
certainly be considered as very impolite
for a gentleman to cease lifting Ins hat
to a lady after she is married.' Etiquette
requires that whenever and wherever a
gentleman meets s lady, even hia own >■**
mother, or wife, or his sisters, or his: f
cousins, or his aunt, ho- ought, as soon . .
as the young lady has condescended to
recognize him, to lift his hat,' _Mora-r»' “
over if you meet a gentleman In tlie
street, or other public place, With whom *"“*
yon are acquainted, who is occompaiged
by a lady that you do not know, yon
must lift your hat to that lady out of"' ‘
rsepect to your friend, and you friend
must acknowledge The compliment by
raising his hat.
■l.ej . i—!--i-w-wgass . • . -
KEBBASKA HEWS.
Pa wain Cmr it to have a new bank.
- Falls Cjt^ is. talking of a street rail*.
way. ,A , T;. : .. J
Fillmobe is moving to organize .a.-. '
county alliance. ..J s _ .*
Ths vinegar factory at Nebraska City ■'
is again in operation. * " ur#y-v .
Praibik fires are numertrus In the ?
western part oipht States- *. :S‘;fa;; 'Si ;
A Cass oounty farmer dug out a* wolf
den and captured seven whelps. , '
. Nearly fifty persons have left Mer
rick county for Wyoming Territory. 4J
H. H. Benton -will stock A' sheep*'1
ranche in Gosper county with TOQdieea.
Ai ouabteb-seotion farm iur Adama'^
County sold, a few days ago, for |2,B0Qi4- ?
Thb. talk about glucow hM'«ea% , !...*'
stimulated the oultivation-oftorgunm. - .
A Nuckolls oounty than
flock of sheep the Other'day
around. 1 ’ * '
Seward county has' hot a eriminal
case on the docket,for tbs oaiaing tajzaB-v ‘f
of eouri at
A poob man at Orleans Joat an ox,
.' ___.... 11!_1 __j*;
in another.
Beatrice sportsmen have deprived a
Bnssion woman in . that vicinity of all
her tame ducks. • > <■.. , , • . ,
B, C. Howabd has resigned the Sher-1 ,
iffidty of Cheyenne oounty, and O, C. ,
Fowler is hie successor.
W. 0. Embby, of David City, has made
some nice simp and sugar from box .
alder grown on his farm... • ■ ■ .i#dq
A little girl of David Eastwood, of
Franklin county, got a pin lodged in her
throat and came near dying. . *
Buffalo county will hold a special
election to decide upon selling the old t
Court House and grounds at Gibbon.
. The Omaha Driving Park Assooiation
is already advertising that it will have a
grand celebration on the Fourth of July.
Mbs. Nancy Guinnet, a widow of
Polk county, lost her two surviving chil
dren, within four days of each other, by
scarlet fever. - ”
Bonds to the amount of $25,000 is
whot is asked of Columbus for being' • / ■
made the initial point of the Black Hills . „
branch of the Union Pacific. , ,
Rev. F. M. Hickox, of Humboldt, is , .
-totally blind, having lost his Sight ill
the army. 1 He is, however, a fine sehol
ar,, a genial companion and an efficient
pastor. - .• Vj oq.s-.iU
FaA-s Crrv has been visited by parties r „
interested in building a railroad direct ,
to that point from Kansas City, and the
construction of it is spoken of with con- >
fideuce. ■ t. i <i.,m sr.;'
N bm aha City postoffico is about tp be- -
come a money-order office: at least that:. ;i
is the expectation, as the Postoffico De- “
partment drew the preliminaries nearly
tliree months einoe.
A Cathouc priest will arrive from the
East in a few days with quite a littlo
colony which will settle near Riverton,
several thousand acres of land having
already been purchased.
A town to be named Akron is or iB to'
be laid ouC one and one-balf miles
south of the present town of Sheridan, .
and, of course, it expects a boom when
ever the curs are running through. • ’ '•
Siiriurr Hvae, of Cass county, has
just captured a man who ran away with
another man’s wife and children. The
wrong-doer was jiving comfortably in
Richardson county when the Sheriff
stepped in.
The Bloomington Guard says a curi
ous epidemic has keen afflicting both old .
and young people about that town of
late. It has all the resemblance of '
measles, but is not so severe. The
latest name for it is “Dutch measles.” '
Mr. Lester, a Beatrioe liveryman,
was badly taken in a few days ago by a
hoy, wh’ represented that he had a team
that he*wished to sell. Mr. Lester ex
amined the outfit and laid down his dol
lars, and the boy skipped. Wednesday
a man put in an appearance, swore out
a writ of replevin, proved property, and
took possession of it.
The Italian Postman’s Hard Lot.
A Borne correspondent of tho Phila
delphia JSullntin writes: ’‘I see by it
morning newspaper that tho pay of the
Roman po trnau varies from 75 to 80
francs a month, with which he must eat,
lodgo, dress, etc, and sometimes ha has
a family to keep in the bargain. I think '
that in most countries the postman is the’* *
worst paid of all publio servants, and
he has, perhaps,, to work the hardest
Some months ago one of these was sud
denly missing, and at the same time an
important sum was missing from the
treasury. It was, of course, surmised . -
that both had taken the same road. Last
week, however,1 after six months, the de
cayed and putrid body of a man was
found in one ■ of the lofts of the Post
office. The stench was so.great that at t .
first no one could got near until the air
was made breathable by disinfectants.
The missing employe was then recog
nized. A,revolver was in his hand. In
the pockets of his coat were a oitation
for debt and one cent! The whole
tragedy was written on that cent. It
was not he, however, who; had taken the
missing money. The family name is
thus far unstained.”
Hie Rarity of Healthy Geiral*.
We acknowledge reluctantly that of
few painters can it be said that they
were, at the same time, highly educated
as youths, highly experienced in the
world as young men, highly successful
in the art they practiced and the friend
ships they gained, and highly honored
at the close of their career for their pic
tures, their teachings and their life.
Something, we can not say what, that
belongs to the artist temperament is
generally found to prevent either the
success sought for or the rospect that
should accompany it; or, if it mokes ,
shipwreck of neither fame nos* respect,
yet forms the cause of disaster still more
fatal to happiness, and spreads over re
putation and honor a shadow of morbid ■
sadness which admits of little or no al-.
leviation. Healthy genius may exist,
we believe it has existed, bnt it is cer- -■
tainly the rarest thing in the world, and
all the conditions of modern life seem to
be against its development.—Spectator
Mae. Doddy—“Why, Mrs. Make
lire, you’re not looking well of late,
drs. M.—“ No (sighing deeply), I never
ook well after I've been buying butter,
drs. D.—"After buying butter? How
loes that happen?” Mrs. M.—“Well,
rou see I have to taste nil the butter
before buying, and as I have to taste
Jfteen or twenty kinds before getting
mi ted, and swallow a good-sized lump
svery time for fear tlie grocery keeper
rill be mad if I spit it out, and as two
;hirds of it is mixed with lard, and the
nther third with tallow, you can just ns
igine the state of my stomach. ’ —Louie’
ville Courier-Jourr./. _
lx is said on the best authority that ft
toad frequented the steps before the ball
door of a gentleman’* house in Devon.
ihire for upward* o{ ttiirty-eix yean, ~ «*»<