Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 1, 1881, Page 11

THE DAILY BEE: JANUARY1, 1881 . 3 being unknown to sll but the bride. Estexia, Saunders Co., Dec. 28. To the Editor of Tas Bys: Your course, in favor of the pro- ducing classes, in advocating a juster distribution of the proceeds of toil as sgainst rsilroad monopoly. is worthy of all commendation, and the promi- nent political journals of the stale which do not second your endeavurs, ‘are either criminally negligent in re- apect to the best tuterests of the state, or are in leagne against the people. I am a farmer, and Nebraska is pre- eminately an sgriculteral state. She is rich in her possibi/ities, but not in fact. In hersoil ie bread, fruit, cloth- ing, upholstery, carriazes, horscs, books, echools, and poetry, eloquence, genwus and song. With sll these in our #oil in unlimited quantiiies, and willing and cunning naods eager to tilize them, whyare we ploddingalong this rate! Why is our fair state § gvelured, our colleges few, our ‘, ools lean and the teachera of A CRUCIAL TEST. HOW A SAN FRANCISCO GIEL WON A DRESS FROM HER FATHER. Ban Franeisco Post. Woman is by nature so erratic and inconsistent a creation that 1t doesn’t doto bet on even her most marked characteristics. For .illustration, old Mr. Punglaap, of Nob Hill, was com- menting on the railroad velocity with which young ladies jabber to each other whenever they mest, without either in the lesst understanding or replying to what the other says. “Ig's just a clean falsehood gotten up by you good-for-nothing men!” said the youngest Puagleup girl, in dignantly. “All mght,” said her faiher, benig coming up the strast. Now, I'li wager that new walkirg euit you want so much that you can eay ‘roast turkey and cranberry sauce’ in response to the first Lalf-dczan remarks she makes without her noticing the fact.” “I never heard of anything so pa: factly absurd,” replied Miss P— “however, I might as well have that suit—it s Just too lovely for anything —s0 I'll just do it to teach you a les- son.” “‘Mind, now,” said her father, as the front door bell rang, ““fair play. You mustn't change your expression in the least, and you muat repeat the sentence in your usual voice and man- ner—that is to say, in a single breath —all ran together, as it were.” Just then Miss Gluckerson was shown into the parlor, and through the library door cld P—— could hear the usual oscalatory peck exchanged, and Miss G- exclaim, without even the smallest ceama in the whole re- mark: “Oh! you lazy thing been here a perfect age don’t look at this hat per- fect fright going to have flowers set back and bow changed why weren't you at mitinee Harry was there.” “Roast turkey and cranberry sauce,” rapidly inserted Miss P—o, ascompanying the words with that pe- culiar prelimivary and concluding gur- gle with which all women, for some occult reason, invariably adorn their conversation, when desirous of bzing agreeable. “Going to Mrs. Biadgers’ party?” continoed Miss Gluckerson, with the serene rattle of a brook of pebbles. “Molly Smith is going they tell ms she paints promised me a phaeton in the spring saw that hateful Mrs. Grap pery on the street bluff overskirt and green ruching just fancy ” “‘Roast turkey and cranberry—"' “Oh, George Skicmore's mother's deai. Ouch! got aflea in my sleeve little pest just eating me up alive bary her next Sunday did you get that edging at Gimps?” “‘Roast turkey and cran—"" are to ity kept poor? Simply because mammoth railroads are un- tly i the lions ‘re of our productions, 11 leave but a pittance for the de- { >pment of the vast interests of the e. The farmer is so reduced by perpetusl drain on his resources he is only able by constant toil to | §ide for the absolute physical wants mself and family, and if he has » he holds it by an uncertain ten- If he has a spell of sickness and © stor’s bill to pay, or loses a horse, *,squently necessitates 8 mortgage is.home. He must stop his last ; he can meither find time to . or meaLs to pay. Such farmers, they are not few, never have the » of rest, culture, beauty, joy and ty arise on their horizon. Hope ong deferred, and yet he toils vn } on, and pays his railroad tariff !ler protest, and impatiently is wait 3 the day of retribution. Qertainly this age of surprises has |»duced no greater surprise than th»* e cliss who produce the »d - .. Iothes of the world are or., clothed and fed; the classes } hat produce all the wealih are them- slves destitute of wealth, and hold- ag in their hands the political power of the nation suffer themselves to be governed by those who ignore their rights, betray them in the councils of the state and nation, and rob them cf their patrimony; but, thank heaven, the farmer is getting his eyes open, aud farmers unions are being organ- ized, and detectives are put on the track of those political frauds and hogs who have the devil in them, and we intend to drive them into the ses. 1 havekfelt the iron fingers of the rail- rosds and other soulless mouopolies on my throat for years, and have struggled under its grip until I here contracted a bad disease; there is something growing up inside of me, I Jennie think it is a young volcano, and then cut with it seems to be catching; others have Q d boots gotit, and it is spreading, those who | ean’t you come around for dinner to- are shipping produce aod are suffer- | morrow and stay all— —" ing for coal have it worst, and like “Roast turkey and pradent men we hayve applied to an ““Night, and show Milly your new eminent physician, whose name is | basque! That man with a light over- “‘constitution. He has prescribed | coat stared at me yesterday Jim O'Neill the ballot, that in years gone by was | is going east this candy frightfally a panacea for all political ills. We in- | stale.” ud to give it & thorvugh trial, bat “Roast turkey——' he difficulty is to get the remedy ¢“Ma thinks Mrs. Brown ain’t proper pure, it _is frequently mixed with tis- | those ferna are just too lovely look at #ue, aud then thenurses fail in prop- | these cuffs clean this morning are my erly counting the drops, and then give | crimps coming out youwrs ain’t Lillie them to the well instead of the sick, | Skippen said you met Oharlie Boggs and failing of a cur2, what then? Do | the other night and he said something not say that the people trudge | nice tell me quick?” along under their burdens—too “Roast turk—"" blina toseeand too cowardly to resi “Why, how perfactly absurd you Not 80; the people are already aro are, Linda, interrupted the visitoran- ed and mad. Before changes can take | grily. “You don’t listen toa word I place, there willbe troublesome times. | s3y. I was asking about Charley, not Our fathers plead with their rulers for | roast turkey! George Shelley thinks justice, and when tyrants would not | you're awful nice. Now tell me, what give it, what did they do? Why, they | did he say? Good gracious! What are took it, and with it liberty, and their | you hugeing me forl” sons are as wise and brave as their ““Aund Tilda,” thoughtfally remark- fathers. And after they exhaust all | ed Miss Pungleup after the matter had the ordinary means to secure their | been explained, and her father admit- + | rights, aud do not gt them, they will | ted that he had lost by a scratch, “1 doas their fathers did—take them. | bolieve in my heart if you hasdn’t " This nation cannot be ran very long | thought about Charley just then I %iu the old grooves that conducted the | shouldn’t have any new suit this win- " Roman people to their ruin. They | ter.” had none, or but little of the light of | Allof which goes to show that there history to wera them of the hurrcrs | is at ‘east oma tubjsct upon which one that lay in their course, and of their { may h p-t, the temporary at- final ruin. Not so with us; we have | teution of « bl female mind. the light of their history from the time - o she was strugeling uy the hil CONNUSIALITISES. . of difficulty, until she stood on —_— ‘the mount of glory. Can " _his glorions republic, on her road to ‘a -higher civilization, be switched off by our Shylocks aud corporate kings, iuto the grooves of decliniug Rome! I suswer, No! With the noize of w40 it, and the people, if need 1 atter it with the voice of " l!lnnden, and as hot as uvius, into the ears 'RAT occurred in Chicago, greatly to the ST GET TALK. surprise of the yonng‘ lady’s friends - but after tae ceremony 1t was learn Fgunders County Farmer on | that the groom’s fortune had baen 4 g wiped out that day by an eccentricgy- &g the Situation. ration of the wheat markat, the fact says 2n exchange, “isa ty question.” It is, indesd, but Mrs. Cyrus Chapman, of Ledyard, Conn., eloped with a boy sixteen years of age. Mr. Ever was married to Miss Joy. The friends of the victims were shock- ed when the press called her “‘a thing of besuty,” because she was a ‘‘Joy for Ever.” Lord Wentworth, at one time en- gaged to Miss Duda Fletcher, the au- thoress, is about to be marrind to Mary Stuart Wortloy, eldest dsuzhter of Rt. Hon. James Stuart Wortiey. The marriage of Lient. Chas. Her- bert Stockton, of the U. S. army, and Miss Pauline Lentilthon King,was sol- emnized at Grace church, New York, by the Rev. H. Potter, D. D., last week. Miss Liiy Dickerson, only daughter of Edward N. Dickerson, the dist'n— guished patent lawyer, will bs married to Charles Gould, at Trinity Chapel, New York, in the early part of ary. The bridesmaids will be A Mignie Evarts, Miss Palmer, Miss Gould, Miss Nezro, Miss Emily Car- tis, and Miss E. Cheever. The Sultan isabout to marry off two | of his daughters—young things, not | yet 15 years old. The bridegrooms, | Who are Tarkish cavalry oficers, have been sllowed to choose their wives for | themselves, and for dowry each re- | ceives a palace, mauy slaves, and a present of money. A wedding is to take place in Sin ¥rancicco next month which is already | causing a seusation. Thereare to be | ten bridesmaids, each of whom will | will carry a lamp (in imitation of an aocient Oriental custom), andgoina | body to meet the groom and conduct him to the bride, who, it is arranged, ssk me how we are "L drifting, and re- ' "aent 80 as to secure a Of these wealthy cor- * chooses to continue " our representatives, of the simple! Ian- - will be done, bat just ‘xnow. The how is like who wanted a portrait { dog, but the dog is at of sight—the how is zht; but wait uotil we “lore pages of history and >u how we did it. Mean- 20w you and the editors air grists ground at your Jave your portraits, we ared your tracks, and we - “tto relax your grip on the % labor or hide in the depths oa. sppmed to the late movement ug the vice-president a life- 5+ to that office; oppored to mak- * pruper of U. 8. Grant by rsising md for his suppor:; opposed to J &ing labor a penalty for crime; op- Jised 10 all frands. papers record with aston- ilhment the fuct that the recent wed- ding of Mile. S , the actress, with the son of a rich stock-broker the bride shed tears. The same thing once will stand, awaitinz his coming, un- der a cannpy of mlk, borne by four friends. The bride’s dress will be de corated with plsques of satin, on which wreaths of orange bloesoms will be painted by the fair fingers of the bride herself. The bridegroom in a mock marriag> at Hulton, Kansas, thought it was all in earnest. He <h numerous rebuffs, and she had con- spired with her friends to make sport of him. A wedding party was gath- ered, a ceremeny was performed by a pretended clergyman, and the victim did not know that he had baen impos- ed upon until the time came to retire for the night. Then they undeceived him. AARON BURR'S LOVE LETTERS. THE TERRIBLE DEPRAVITY THAT THEY SHOW. When I knew Aaron Burr he was well advanced in years. Ho was one of the worst men that ever lived. He had no scruples whatever about be- traying womean, aod hechose the love- liest in the land for his victims. About the time of his duel he had dis- graceful intrigues with a dozen or twenty ladies at_once in New York, Albauy, New Haven, Providsnce, Boston, Bultimore, Richmond, aud and smaller towns between. Some cf these were kept up for years, but most of them had speedy successors. I speak of themas ‘‘ladies”—they were wives of brilliaut lawyers or wealthy merchants, cr the young daughters of the fashionable old families. There was an agony of fear among these when the duel was fought, lest the guilty gallant should fail and their terrible secret be betrayed, and this fear deepened to cousternation when he died at last Many of the oldest’ families of New York, Pennsylvania and New Eng- laud trembled ther. It had been ramored around that Burr had never destroyed any letters from ladies. And this shows better than anything else his lack of any moral sense what. ever—for he refused to protect those whom he had greviously injured, when they could have been protected without & moment’s thought. He used to boast that ke hud never de stroyed one letter. And with devilish method he had folded them all care- fully, and filed them regularly in pack- ages—each lady's letters by them- selves. When Burr died at last, Mathew L. Davis, his only friend, who became his administrator, sert for me. I went. There was nothing to administer but the expressions of tenderness which the scoundrel had cajoled from respectable women aad filed away. There was the will he made the day bafore his duel with Hamilton. In that he said to his daughner, Theodosia, his only legiti- mate child, then atsea: “In ablue wrunk in the attic you will find some- thing to amuse, more to instruct, atill more to regret.” That blue trunk which he thus coolly bequeathed to Lis only child, and that chuld a lovely daughter, contsined the carefully treasured love letters from a dozen women at a time, proofs of her fath- er's depravity. Does that not show that Burr was without any moral sense whatever? Theodosia was swal- lowed up by tho waves and never saw the blue trunk. We opened the blue trank, which Davis had partly examined, and I shall vever forget my astonishment and disgust at what I saw. It was nearly filled with letters from women filed in packages. We looked at the individual letters. Most of them had been eigned with initials only, or ofi- ener without any name, or with some pet name; but Burr, with a malignity whose motives I caonot yet under- stand, had writtsn out each name in full. He seemed resolved that othera should share his infamy. Some of the names belonged to the moat hon- ored families in t*e land—to have re- vesled them wouid have been to cause terrible anguish, and i several cascs probably the bresking up of fami- lies. Iused to go over and look at them when I had a spare hour. They were strictly guarded by Davis. He was a queer msn, but he had a high sense of personal honor. Why Mor- decai M. Noah offered Davis $20,000 for that blue trunk and its contents, but of nourse it was spurned, and the insult resented. Maithew Davis, too. had his eccentricities, and one of his queer notions in regard to these cap- tared love letters was that they shouid all bs returned to the writers That seemed to me to inflict neediess paia, aud I argued with him about it, but he said the writers would be better satis- fied if they had a chance to destroy them themselves. Some of them were old ladies then, mothers and grand- mothers, but Davis undertook the grim taek of returning all the packages of let- ters by the hands of trusty friends. A good many he gave back himself. He gave me one of these delicate packages to deliver when I was going to Providence one day, but I told him I wou'd see him hanged first. But I know that General Scott did accept one of the packages from Mathew Davis and returned it with his own hand to a lady high in society in Kicbmond. Hetoldmeso. Ialwaya wondered whether she thanked him or not, but I forgot to ask him. But think of the moral nature of a man capable of d.liberately leaving all thess letters to his own daughter as a legacy. Burr was quite a small man Very graceful in movement and cour- teous in demeanor. A small hand and foot. Not spirited or dashing at all, but his manner was full of repose, and his voice soft and nusical. He would strike one at iirst as being slightly ef- feminate, but he was not so; he was a bold, strong, capable man. In conver- sation, till the last ten years of his life, he was brilliant. But to return to the subject of his wickedness toward women. When he was in Eng- land he was greatly assisted and be- friended by a learned professor of Oxford University, whose name I must not mention. In return for this friendship, Burr ruined Lis wife. Six years afierwards, Burr got a position for this professor in a New York Col- | lege, for obvijus reesons, and when | they came over to this city Burrreduc ed their daughter, a lovely girl of 17, | whose confidence he had won when she was & little girl, during his visit in Eogland. In duetime the profes- ; sor died, and Burr became a penniiess outcast. Then this mother and daughter instead of hating and spurn- ing him, took him and supported him by keeping a boarding house down town. Tois was _on the well-known Keese place, on Broadwsy, jost be- low Wali stroet Here his food and very medicine was paid for by the two women on whom he had inflicted mortal injury fifteen years before. He had no sente of shime or of grati- tade. He was almost universally hated during his last years, and was really an object of pity. I r-member beinz on an Albsny steamboat one night, an’ seeing a crouching form on the deck, I went out, and there was Burr in the cold. I asked him why he did rot goin. He said he was not very cold, but we went In together. There was Governor Lewis Morgan, whom % saluted. I noticed thxt th-y did not speak, 80 [ seated myself between them. Finally Burr arose and moved off “‘Don’t you know Col. Burr?” I asked him. “Yes,” 8sid he, ““I know the d—d reptile.” —Thurlow Weed's story toa New York Correspondent. IMPibTIEflS. The queation now agitating a col- ored congregation in Norik Carolina is, “Who nureed Eve at the birth of Caiu?” The pastor is a scien‘ist and manages to keep his flock by the ears most of the time with difficalt evan- gelical problems. There was a fight im.ainent between two boys. Oue of them darkly hinted that he was bigcer than the other. The smaller, who is the son of a des- con, defiantly retorted: ‘I don't care if you're as big as a church debt; you can’t scare me.”’ A noted sharper, wishing to ingrati- ate himself with a clergyman, said: ‘“‘Parson, I should like to hear you preach more than I can tell you.” ¢‘Well,” responded the clergyman, *‘if you had been where you ought to have heen last' Sunday you would have heard me.” ‘‘Where was tnat?” “‘In the county jail.” Some philanthropists sent a bible to a Milwaukee editor in hopes of doing him some good and he thought it was anew publication and wrote a review of it in which he said the production was a failure. If it was intended for a novel it Jacked plot, and if fora his- tory it was full of improbable inci- dents, He couldn’t recommend it. The Rev. Mr. Shokey was preach- ing at Oarson, Nev., on the swallow- ing of Jonahby a whale. Thore were some sporting men in the congrega- tion, and their faces expressed doubt of the story. Seeing this the minister said: “‘I'll bet §100, coin up, that I can prove every word of it. Does auybody respona?” Nobody answered, and he went on with his discourse. At a negro prayer meeting, one of the brethren e:rnestly prayed that they might be preserved from what he | called their “‘apsetun’ sivs.” “Brud- der,” said oue of the elders, *yer hain't 'zactly ot de hang ob dat ar word. It’s besittin’—not upsettin’.” “Brudder,” replied the corrected, ‘‘ef dat’s so, iv’s 80; but I was prayin’ de : Lawd ter save us from de sin of "toxi- cation, au’ ef dat ain’c a apsettin’ sin, Idunno.” EDUCATIONAL. The University of Berlin has 4,107 stndents this session. Philosophy claims the largest number—1,891. The San Francisco schoo! board has made a rule declaring vacaut the posi- tion of all Iady teachers who marry while employed in the school. Nearly 7 000 young people have re- cently offcrad themssives for the Cam- bridge local examimations A third of the number are young girls. Williams College has now 227 stu- dents. The frechman class has sev- enty-two members. The requirements for admission have lately been in- creased, and pow inclade additicnal Greek and an English composition. Evangelist Moody's seminary at Northampron, Mass, is fall, con- taining now about 100 pupils, includ- ing the Indian girls, The latter are making excellsnt progress in their studies. They aro very fond of music. Tae trustees of Cornel University havé appropriated $100 000 for imme- diate improvements. $50,000 are to be spent in building and equipping a physical labratory. It is proposed to establisa departments of mining, en- gineering, metallurgy and music. Superintendent Smart, of Indiana, has been studying the public schools in the south, and has found a surpris- ing arowth of the system, especizlly in Georgia and Tennessce. The col r- ed people take great interest in the education of their children, and the new geueration can, asa rule, read and write. There are now on the rolls of ohns Hopkins University eighty graduates of other colleges who are receiving the instruction whicha gen- eration ago they would have gone to Germany to get. Of the 46 gentla- men who have held the position of fellows in the university 28 have taken excellent posts as inetructors in colleges aud othar institutions of & high character; 2 are attached to'the Uhited States Coast Survey, and 2 to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York;4are engaged in the ap- plication of science to practical work. 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We make this offer at this moment that all who have NEW YEAR'S PRESENTS to buy may gét the full advantage. ALL THE 20 OFF GOODS Will be arranged together on our centre tables. It's needless to say that at these prices, the Goods are much below cost, but we prefer to let them out and give our friends a benefit rather than carry them for another year. A merry Christmas and happy New Year to all. : y@ruicfi'sfianli A Cruickshank & Co. 4 Co. °