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’ L o THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, AUGUST 18 1481, ( o e = e — — g — = Ss_p— o ———— ] r m Harness, 8addles, e, A Romanoe of Indian Life |up the middlo aisle of the village| droad " . y =Ty n J T i\ road archor had marked anothe OMANA PUBLIBNING OO, PROPRIETORS. Hat and Bonnet Bleachers, Major Gordon, of the Second in- (hand bill pinned betweon his shoul:| for his own, The wholo family took | ChEyenne, . » Colorado. Ladics get yous Straw, Chipand Kelt Hata dove | fantry, was well acquainted with Spot- | ders. The joker spent the remain- |on Tike mad, and Mrs, Skid was bt P At northowet comer Acver teenth and Capitol der of the night, after church, the [to shove the powder-keg under Jay 818 Farnham, bet. Oth and 10th Streets. ted Tail, the Sioux chief, who was ERMS OF § Avente, WM. DOVE Probrictos " . ¢! 4 ; ITM(“s .}I SUBSCRIPTION ¢ Aol e |killed by Crow Dog at Rosebud |cellar of a deserted house, and Nic Gould and touch it off herself, when 1 opy 1 year, in advance (postpaid). Hotels, agency. He first saw him at Fort | demus sat on the cellar door till o | od } 1 the B . aalh Wibn PRt ¥ 8t s i s 81 [ I | pointed out that it wouldn't do to d S onths % 3.00 | CANFIELD HOUSE, Geo, Canfleld, th & Farnham | Laramic in 1866, he having come |ward breakfast titne 0 make sure descerate our offspring's tombin that prl ng an ummer PR DORAN HOUSE, P. 1. Cary, 013 Famham St. | thither on an errand so sad that it | that the prisonor remembered that if | w y. 8o 1 just had the burial s . RAILWAY TIME TABLE. % F‘I‘\\z\}»‘ll(flr.l‘ ¥ \I"‘,,"' v«lun Strect o, |affocted his after life He | any noise was made rough treatment | read over the lon and tied crap TINR GARD crrich TMINNRATOLIS AN TSR T R e {broughe thero the body of | would bo the consequence. Tho col- |around his neck for thirty days G ol T ron Fencing his favorite daughter for [ lar had two feet of stagnant watcr in | How dooes that strike you!' X = Teave Omaha—No. @ throneh yassenger, 11| Chumpion Tomn Femae . b oo bt afgkile | burial, and oficers of the post, with | it, and was bottomed with six inches After that you kept the animal | & m. No. 4, Onkland passenger, 8:300. m. ot | OV FaiGy Tron Funces, Crestings, Finals, Railings, | Other white residents of she neigh- mud. chained BE RO B Okl Jecorouih assenger, 2:80 ct:. 1810 Doio strse %1% borhood, took part in the obsequics. | @iBeforo a very long timo had clapsed | “Well, no. The fact is T sct out ¢ " | Spotted Tail killed a number of ponies at the funeral and nailed the skulls on the village smarties began to feel an|get a chain uncomfortable consciousness of LEAVING OMAHA KAST OR SOUTI BGUND, Inteliigence Office soveral times, but on¢ 840 p. m. MKS. LIZ T 217 16th Street. L not | thing and another prevented, nntil ) -— TS - | the posts supporting the cotlin. These [ having made n very shining succoss of | one day last week T actually missod LATE AND NOBBY STYLES B, 88 m.—0:50 b m. Arrive JOHN BAUMER 1814 Farnham strect, | 2XUHS 8till remain, and every year the | their attempts on the simpicton from | the old lady herself. 1 looked around am 45 &, . - Rl Ll LI | commanding ofticer sces to it that the | <old Shelby. ixperiments grew [ for her acouple ot days, when somehow | WRST OR & OTHWRSTS, Junk, |coftin is decorated with flowers and | scarce and char ow the young|of a sudden T sorter intentioned where & - in Neh, Through r‘\.z;:‘;«:;nmn, m. _H. BEPTHOLD, Raesand Metal. | streamers. The daughter had a ro- [ doctor came to the rescue. There | she was. I gave Gould about n half W LumBer, Lime and Osment | mantic history, which 18 familiar to|was delight and applause when pound of emetic right away, but al R MEN’ BOYS AND GHILDREN- Lincoln, 10:90 a. m. FOSTER & GRAY corner 6th and Douglas Sts, | Many army officers and plainsmen. | he proposod to seare Nico- | we could get out of him was a paiv of VD e e She fell in lovo with Licuten-|demus to death, and _expliined | high heeled shoes and a chest-protect 16 8. m. bl ket A e b ant Brockhorst L vingston, and the | what he was going to do, He had o lor, It was too late—too Iate. We| ) 6110 p. . —emigrant, | J ht No. 11 8:25 v. m. ING—FROM BAST AND SOUTHL] BONNER 1309 ouglas St. Good Variety noble new skeloton—the skelcton of the late and only loeal celobrity, [and had Jay led behind the hearse to | L3 Simy Flan e silkgconians. | [ the eaare s e o 0bS Caps, Trunks, Valises. grisly piec + . property which lic had | much of the corpse present as possible ) ’ ’ bought ot Jimmy Finn hiusclf, at|--don't you see/ We had tho animal aunction, for 50, under great competi- [ all decorated with flowers and things, tion, when Jimmy lay very sick in|as fine as you please. Folks said it the tanyard a fortnight before his | was the touchingest thing that ever death. The fitty dollars had gono | took place in them parts;” and the promptly for whisky, and had con- | bereaved husband sighed heavily. siderably hurried up the change of [ *“Don’t wonder you want to sell the ownership in the skeloton. The doc- | beast,” remarked the menagerie man tor would put Jimmy Finn's skeloton | after a pause. |old Second Dragoons, and a direct descendant of the famous Chancellor Livingston of New York. He scems to have reciprocated her love and they | put the shoes and things in a coffin | G. A. LINDQUES One of our most popular Merchant Tailors s re and vrices low as ever 216 13th bet. Dove.& Farn. [ though bound by no legal ties. Liv- s — = | ingston at length took sick, became a prey to dementia, was sent to Eur and there died. The poor girl awaited his return long and anxiously, aud guarded as dearer than her heart's ——— I blood his son, n bright boy two or three years old, At length the nows Millinery. MIIS, €, A, RINGER, Wholesale and Retail, Fan- cy Goods in great variety, Zephyrs, Card_Boards, THosiery, Gloves, Corsets, &c._ Cheapest House in the West, Purchasers save 80 per ¢ Order by Mail. 115 Fifteenth Stroct Physicians an 1 Surgeon: CRCLOTHINGI MLADE TO ORDER IN THE LA ST YLES, Satisfaction Guaranteed. R . W. 8, GIBBS, M. D, Rom No 4, Creight ¢ ; i i b Block, 16th Strect, * T of his death renched her,and the wife— | in Nicodenius’ bed. HWoll, Tsorter do and sorter don't,” Prices to Suit all | " | = for so she considered herself, of so| This was done - about 10:30 ! id Mr, Skidmore, abstractedl Nebraska Division of tne St. Paul & Sioux City P | ) ¢ ' is was done - abou in the | sai I, ¢ N stractedly, oad Pty Eye and Ear, opp. postotcc | NI Dative friends considered her— |ovening. Abeut Nicodemus' usual | “There's so many memories wid 1322 FARNHAM STREET Bl g D S E B, GRADDY pined a few months with a slowly | bedtime —~midnight — thevillage jokers | things clustering around J. G.-seems ) 50 p. arrives at Omaha at 4:30 p. m . 8 arrives at Omaha at 10:45 a. m. DUMMY TRAINS BEFWEKN OMAIA AND COUNGHL, BLUPFS. Leave Omaha at ), 9:00 and . W I5th and’ Farnham Sts. hi the breaking heart, and then died. Her last words were the few English words of endearment Livingston had taught her in days gone by, Spotted Ti took the beloved form where Living- kinder like parting with one's, family burying-lot, as it were. On the other hand, though, now that the old lady 1 sorter feel a3 if tho old had outhved s Oculist and Aurii, camo creeping stealthily thro jimson" = weeds and suntlowers towards the lonely frame den. There sat tho long-legged pauper on his bed, |is gone, in avery short shirt and nothing |insect had---well, NEAR FOURTEENTH, Photographers. GEO. HEYN. PROP., Grand Central Gallery, 212 Sixteenth Street. r Masonic Hall, First-cinss Work and Prompt- NOT "TELIXE: I.A.RG—ES 11:00 o m.; ..‘l;ué(,:yL unci 155‘.,.':?;:‘%;:«,; , rl" 25 A m.; ey ston had first met her and there bu-|{more. He was dangling his legs ¢ usefulness, so to speak, So suppose “Sundays—The dummy leaves Omaha at 0:00 Blumbing, Gas and Steam FIAING, ried it. Mrs. Livingston, the mother | tontedly back and forth, and whe T just have this box hauled around to of the lieutenant, is still living in New York, or was a short time ago, and has instituted inquiries relative to the son spoken of, with a view of 11:00 4. m.; 2 incil Bluffs at and 5:25 p. m, d 6:00 p. m and 11:26 8. .| Leay s Lot your show ater the porformance this witernoon, and see if we pan’t strike a bargain,” ‘All right,” the musicof ‘‘Compton Races” out of a paper overlaid comb which he was pressing against his mouth; by him lay a new jows-harp, a mew top, a P. W. TARPY & CC.. 210 12th St., bet. Farnham and Douglas, Work promptly attended to. D. FITZPATRICK, 1409 Douglas Street. Opening and Closing of Malls. i 1 : b o Painting and Paper Hanging. said the manager, ROUTR, OPRX. CLOBE. s anHnk e b 4 caring for and educating him, but all [ solid Tndiarubber ball, a handful of | “T'h going up Nalt Lake way after Chicngo &N, W........ 1100 "5:30 40 2140 | ot A YOVHERS, W13 Dodke Streel | race of him_was lost, or his Llu!_k{ painted marbles, fivo pounds of |awhile, and perhaps 1 canwork him Chicago, R. 1. & Pawific. 11:00 Planing Mill. relatives preferred to keep him with | “‘store” candy and a well gnawed slab | off for big moncy to some of the Mor- —BUT— Chicago, B. & Q 11:00 ufacturer of sash, dooy alusters, hand rail blinds, A. MOYER, m: themseives, of moldings, mon elders,” and as “There’s music, gingerbread as big thick as a volume of sheet rnishing mint scroll sawing, &c., cor. Dodge and 9th streets, g f of money in him A\ Wihah }““‘:";":T:;'if“"‘:l'i‘"fin .| He had sold the skeleton to a travel- |as o family pet,” said_the OtVde tpr . d Pawnhroks it vas & boy I a printing of- iy 0 quack for 83 and was enjoying the | estly) and after striking the circus ¢ 1t Town Totie tha co o | - BOSENFELD, 829 10th St., bet. Far. & Har, fice ”‘l M”""}‘:”'d“ loose-jointed, long- | ognlt, proprietor for a season dead-head the THE OHE _A__P E :SI I 1 \ % Rerrigerators, Ganfisias Patert. | (cgued tow-headed, jeans-olad, coun. widower shouldered is umbrella and trified cub of about sixteen lounged in one day, and without removing his hands from the depths of his trowsers pockets, or taking off his faded ruin of a slouch hat, whose broken brim Parting With the Family Pot The other morning, while the pro- prietor of the approaching circus and menagerie was Yi ng his teeth on 1 is also opened at 10:30 a. m. Office open Sundays from 12 m. to 1 p. in. THOS. F_HALL P, M. C. F. GOODMAN 11th St. bet. Farn. & Harney. drifted sadly down the street. 8how Case Yanufactory., 0. J. WILDE, Manufacturer and Dealer 1n all kinds of Show Case: 7 Casy St A Conneoctiout Elopemeént The Connectiout Western E OIV: AEIA News . D' t Upright Cases, ., 1317 C: Rl 1 | hi s | the steps of the Russ house, a tall | gives the following details of a Litch- g limp and ngod about his ears sun-burned, bl’lld'hflfldfid man, with | f ] 1 " I" “ Ilv FRANK L. GERITAKD, fetor Omaha | | B u y D ) field county elopement which seems i Us BSS ,B [_; DA ! | Show Case manutactory, 818 Ronth 16th strect, | LKe & bug-eaten cabbago leaf, stared | i burrs in his clothes and a siick of | to hiave just been made public: Law- indifferently around, then leaned his hip against the editor's table, crossed between: Leavenworth and Marcy. warranted first-class. All goods sassafras 1 his mouth, apyroached |rence Yorker, of Kent, formerly of Dry Gooods Store in the West (without ex- Art Emporium. L8 d A and said: f this place, and familiarly known as y e BOSES Art Eporiow, 1516 Dodgs airest, Stoves ana_mware. s mighty brogans, nimed at a distant | " B you the wild-animal mau, | “Bud, eloped Sturday evaning. July ception). ngravings, . , I ) g . " » A £ ", Frames, Framing o Speciaity: "Low Pricés. A. BURMESTER, Y P ) | mister? 30th, with Mrs. Sarah Graves, wifo of i BONNER 1300 Douclas Strect. ~ Good Stylee. | Dealer in Stoves and Tinware, and Manufacturer | 1aid him low, and said with com-| “rphe” proprietor of the circus ad- a Chicago drummer, who was living in | T |of Tin Roofs and all kinds of Building Work, : : 4 b Abstract ard Real Estate. e Gl R B p"f.“\’{f'h“,a the boss?" mitted that such was the fact. Kent, her husband being away most f JOHN L. McCAGUE, opposite Post Office, | J. BONNER. (1300 Douclas 8¢ Good and Cheap. [ iy TRRLHORESas R sal 1 thiakadite *‘Then,” proceeded the man from |of the time. Yorker left a wife and } W. R. BARTLETT 817 South 18th Street. am bhe dom, sald the editor, | yhe mountains,.*I think I'll get you |child a year and a half old, and Mrs b ! & . Seeds. following this curious bit of architect- to/mak ftor f largo-sized |G A Y Y | T T T P e R e e 1y along up. to its clock, | 1 make me an offer for a large-sized | Graves is the mother_of three ohil- 1 CDELSSOTY. ARCHITECTS, | Cultivators, 0dd Fellows' Hall PR Bt California lion I've got. ; dren, whom she left in Kent. Yorker i DUFRENE & MENDELSSONN, Al ) ace with his oye. ‘‘Good specimen, eh?” asked the|came to this place by the {hrougl | Room 14, Creighton Block. Bhos Btores, “Don't want anybody to learn the| . came to this | y the through ¥ A. T. LARGE Jr., Room 2, Cicighton Block. A 3th & 16th. | business—'tain’t likely " circus man, freight train north, getting here about 1 i H bet. 15th & 14th, | business— tain't likely “Good? Well, T should say s0. |3 ¢'clock Sunday il Mea G rad T “Well, I don’t know. Would you y Y o'clock Sunday morning, Mrs, Graves Laihi iy econd Hand Store. 3 (s o + WOuld yOU| Measures eleven feet from the tip of [Lavingarrived by the 8 o'clock train 4 | like to learn it{ 5 y JAMES DeVINE & CO., Fine Boots and Shoes. A agsorment of ‘home work on hand, corner 12th and Harney. THOS. ERICKSON, 8 E. cor. 16th and Douglas. 1 /‘ JOHN FORTUNATUS, KINS & LEAR, 1416 Douglas St., New and his nose to the tip of his tail. Caught him myself when a cub. Just four years old to-morrow ‘‘Hum—geod appetite?” Saturday evening, going direct to the Warner house, where she was joined by Yorker on his arrival by the through freight. They stayed at the ‘‘Pap's 80; pa, he can’t run me no mo’, so I want to get a show somers if I can, 'tain’t no difference what. I am strong and hearty, and I don’t turn S Hand Furniture, House Furnishing Goods, &e., bought and sold on narrow marvins. Baloons. HENRY EAUFMANN, 606 10th street, manufactures to order good work i “Appetitel | Great Scot-appetite! | W, s 5 4 % In the new brick block on Douglas Stract, has 5 s ppetite: Teal COf ppetite: | Warner house over Sunday, going out Hot Lunch from 10 to 12 overy day, Forthe next ten days to close out Sum- Bed 8prings. point—thats just why I'm parting UiDatsoulthin i yontuonld Lile oo the early Monday morning tram east, J. F. LARRIMER Manufacturer. 1517 Dourlas st. Books, News and Stationery. J. L FRUEHAUF 10156 Farnham Street. Butter and Eggs. McSHANE & SCHROEDER, the oldest B, and E. house in Nebraska established 1876 Omaha, FLANNERY, On Farnham, next to the B. & M. headquarters, has re-opened a neat and complete establishment which, barring FIRE. and Mother Shipton's Proph- ecy, will be opened 10r the boys with Hot Lunch on and after present date, * Caledonia ” J. FALCONER., 679 16th Street, CENTRAL RESTAURANT, MR3. A. RYAN, southwest corner 16thand Dodg Bost Board for the Money. Batisfaction Guaranteed. Meals at all Hours. Board by the Day, Week or Month. Good Terms for Cash. Furnished Roam Snpplied. Carriages and Road Wagon WM, SNYDER, No. 151h 14th and Harney Streots] Olvil Engineers and Surveyors. ANDREW ROSEWATER, Creighton Block, Town Surveys, Grade and Sew Systems & 8 on Merchants, JOHN G. WIL LIS,1414 Dodge Street, D B BEEMER. For details sec large advertige- ment in Daily and Weekly. nd Tobacco. nianufacturers of Cigars, ‘ovaceos, 1305 Douglas. manufacturer 534 10th stre Cigars Cornice Works, Western Cornice Works, Manufacturers Iron Cornice, Tin, Iron and Slate Roofiing. Orders from any locality prouptly executed in’ the best manner, Factory and Oflice 1310 Dodge Stre Galvanized Iron Cornices, Window Caps, etc., manufactured and put up in any part of the country. 1. SINHOLD 416 Thiriéenth strect Crockery. NER 1800 Dougias stroct. Good line, J. BON Clothing and Furnishing Goods. @EO. H. PETERSON. Also Hats, Caps, Boots, 8hoes, Notions ‘itlery, 804 8, 10th street, Clothing Bought. © SHAW will pay highost Cash price for second hand clothing, Corner 10th and Farnham Dentists, DR. PAUL, Williams' Plock, Cor, 16th & Dodge. Drugs, Palats and Oils. KUHN & €O, Pharmacists, Fine Vanc (inols, Cor. 15th and Dougiss stroets. W.J, WHITEHOUE E, Wholesale & Retail, 16th st. C. C. FIELD, 2022 N eth Side Cuming Strect, M. PARR, Druggist, 10'h and Howard Streots. Dry Goods Notlons, Etc. JOHN H, F. LEuMANN & CO., New York Dry Goods §.ore, 1810 and 1312 Farn- ham stréet. wold_alsa boots and shoos 7th & acific, L Furuiture, A F. GROSS, New and Second Hand Fumniture and Btoves, 1114 Douswms. Highest cash price paid for second hana gogss. J. BONNER 1300 Dougia st Fine goods, &c Fence Work: OMAHA FENCE €O. GUST, FRIES & CO., 1218 Harney St., Improve- ed Ico Boxes, Iron and Wood Ferices, Office Railings, Counters of Pine and Walnut. Florist. Donaghue, plants, cut flowers, sceds, boquots ote” BOW Cor, Toth and Dourdas strocta: roundry. JOHN WEARNE & SONS, cor. 14th & Jackson sts Flour and Feed. GHAHA CITY MILLS, 8th and Farobam Ste., Welshaus Bros., o) rs. Grocers. 2. STEVENS, 21st between Cuming and Izard, 7. A. McSHANE, Corn. 23d and Cuming Streets. rlatters. W. L. PARBOTTE & CO., %06 Douglas Strect, Wholsale Exclusively. Hardwaie, lron and Bteel. DOLAN & LANGWORTHY, Wholesale, 110 and 16th street. A, HOLMES corner 16th and Califorola. Urdertakers. CHAS, RIEWE, 101# Farnham bet. 10th & 11td. P. PE It, 303} Tenth stroet, botween Farn: ham and 1 uty. Does xood and cheap work, 89 Gent Stores. HENRY POHLMAN, toys, notions, jewelry, &c., 518 14th bet. Farnham anid P_€ BACKUS. 1205 Farnham St ORDINANCE NO. 470, ictuses uglas Fancy Gaods si An ordinance establishing the grade af Farn- ham street from a point two hundred and five (205) fect west of Jdfferson street west to the city limits, Be it orlained Ly the C Omaha; Skcriox 1. The grade of Fs a point two hundred and fiy Jefferson_street west to th as follows: Begi clevation of one hy feet, at the north curh of Fary point two hundred west line of Jeffers: , thenee with a uy forni ascending grade of three and sixty-oue hun- drodths (3 61-100) per one hundred (100), six hun dred and ninety three (093) fect, to an” elevation of two hundred and ten (210) feet at the cast | th curb of 2ith street in McC K's addition, | g thence west one hundred and fourteen (114) fe to the east curh line of o sixty foot. strect not | P nawmed in sub-division of lot five (5) Capitol ad- | fo dition to an elevation of two hundred and twelve o1 (212) feet, thence west thirty-six (86) fect to the . west curl) on level grade, thence west di three (43) feet to an evation of two hu and eleven S‘,’ill feet at the line between lots three (3) and four (4) in block two (2) in Capitol Hil rade Council of the City of nham street fron | WV ) fect west of limits shall e establishod it f ix thence west with a descending | th sixty-onue hun s sfllfl-lll‘) s hundred” (100), three hundred and 1 one-h ation of one hn- dred and ninety-one (191) at the cast curb 20th strect 1 e 1:'s addition to the city f Ouaha, t L (45) feet to an f 5) per (100) o hundred and sixty- five hundred and t at the rate of thre nthousandths (3 119) Rity (160) feet, thenco wet on & lovel s huidred (100) fe nee with an acerding crde of six and ninety hundredths (698100 foet | fi per 100 feet, a di tance of one thousand » nd seventy five (1,075) fe to an elevation of two hundr>d and twenty five (225) feet, thence west learn the printing business?’ “Well, I don't re'lly k’yer a darn what I do learn, so's I get a chance fur to make my way. I'd just as soon learn print'n’s anything.” “‘Can you read?”’ “‘Yes ~ middlin’.” *Write?” “Well, I've seed people could lay over me thar.” “‘Cipher?” “‘Not good enough to keep store, I don’t reckon; but as far as twelve- times-twelve Tain't noslouch. 'Tother de of that is what gits me.” ““Where is your home?” “I'm f'm old Shelby.” ““What's your father's religious de- nomination{" ““Him? Oh he's a blacksmith.” “‘No, no—I don’t mean his trade. Vhat's his religious denomination?” “Oh, I didn’t understand you befo', He's a Freemason,” “No, no-you don't get my mean- What I mean does he belong | to any church?” 2 yet. “Now you are talking! rough yo' head, no woy. church? Why, boss, he’s been the pizenest kind'of a Freewill Baptis’ for There ain't any pizener rty years, 1es'n what he is, If they said an, firunt they wouldn't say it whnr¥ wuz - not much they wouldn't.” *‘Well, boss. you've kind o’ got me ar.”’ “‘What is your name?” ‘‘Nicodemus Dodge.” ““I think maybe you'll do, Nicode- us. We'll give you trial, anyhow.” ‘Al right.” **When would you like to begin?’ “Now,” 8o, within ten minutes after wo had the tirst glimpse at this nondescript, he was one of us, and with his coat off’ and hard at it. Beyond the end of our establish- ment which was furthest trom the street was a deserted garden, pathless and thickly grown with the bloomy and villainous “‘jimpson” weed and its common friend, the stately sun- In the midst of this mourn- ful spot was a decayed and aged little “frame” house wer, with Couldn't make out what you was a tryin’ to get Belong to but one room, with Jay—I “call him Jay Gould because he takes everything in If it wasn't for his appetite and the queer little things it makes him do, wouldn't part with Gould fora fortune. ‘“‘Savage, eh” ‘‘Well, no; I don’t know as I should call Jay savage, exactly—sorter nib- blish, thougfi, he may be. Has a kinder habit of gnawing up things, so to speak. In fact the neighbors—I live up in Bladder's Peak—have gotten to be so fussy and particular of | late that I can’t 8o much as unchain J. G. for a little fresh air without their getting grumpy about it!” “‘There’s no pleasing some people,” said the hipprodromer., “I should say not. Now, f'rinstance "bout three months after Jay got to be | as bigas a boarding house sofa, I came home one day from a picnic and | found he had eaten up Aunt Maria, who had been left at home to mind the house—~leastwise she was nowhere to be found; and as Jay Gould seemed sorter bulgy-like and kept coughing up hairpins and false teeth for a day or two, we kinder suspicioned the whole thing.” ‘¢ Maternal aunt/’ inquired the showman, thoughtfully. " ‘‘Exactly. My wifo took on dread- fully at first, and wanted me to shoot Jay right off, But I told her he had probably suffered a good dsal as it| was, and that as most likely he'd | catch rheumatism and things from the rema we'd better eall it square.” “‘And did she!” “Well, she kinder got re aftor a while, especially as fond of playing with the children, One morning soon after that, my wife's mother--whole family lived with me, you see~didn't come down to breakfast. Asall her false hair was hanging over a chair back, and Gould crawled out trom under the bed, licking Jus chops, and with lis tongue a good deal coated-—mothe: in-law was always taking things for the liver complaint, - we saw at once | it was another visitation of providence, and that the heavy hand of affliction was again upon us,” *‘Looked that wi didn't it?" seven hundry ) fest with wn ascending grade | oo window and no ceiling: it had | “Well as you suppose, the old of one ane eighty-six hundredths, (1 86-100) per | C eiling; it had | .0 5 B . 1t St o hunirt i thies” | boon a smoke houso a_generation be- |144Y-thata iy wif pravced ar i el (1) foet, thence west with & descendiay | fore, codomus was given this i”’“”; ‘ml (hrnl, and go ‘ln;w'n the | 0o (142 foet to wn eloration chamber, s“ll:u(, Y\e a ;;.lu mml.] l‘...n'x he | 1d twenty-six (226) feet at the : : . P, A. society, awarded on ac- S0 .8 The villaze smarties recognized a QEIAT) BuATSOtUaR. W1 5, The grade of the sonth eurbof Faruhau | tr strect hotween the points herein specified shall | nd in elevation with the grade of the iis ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage THOS, 1. DAILEY President of City Attest J.J. L C. Jrwr, Gty Clerd Passed Aug. ith, 1551 Approved Aug. 15th, H aul66t WILL BUY AND SELL L RBEAX. BSTATEH lo AND ALL TRANBACTION CONNECTED THEREWITH. Pay Taxes, Rent Houses, Btec, 1F YOU WANT T0 BUY OR 81 Call at Office, Room 8, Creighton Block,"Omaha, apb-d of bait to play -jokes on, see that ho was inconceivably green George Jones had the honor of perpetrating the first joke on him; he gave him a cigar with+a fire cracker in it and winked to the crowd to come on; the thing exploded oresently and swept away the bulk of and confiding, casure in icodemus’ eye-brows and eye-lashes, e simply said: i / “x con-ide“r u\ed-s kimL;.i seeg yars DextorL, Thomas&iBro, |issemons, e et st laid George and poured a f:uckfl, of © water over him, One day, while Nicodemus was swimming, Tom McEiro; clothes. “‘tied” his Nicodemus m Tom'’s by way of retaliation, A third joke was played upon Nico- demus a day or two later—he walked icodemus right away—a It was easy to ¢ a bonfire court of my forbearance Maria business, and so I got her calmed down after awhile, ‘‘Pacified her, eh?” “Yes; I managed to arrenge a re- prieve for Jay somchow. You see, 1| was always awtul fond of pets, and tender hearted, and all that, you understand. T argued that the poor animal didn’t know he was doing| wrong—merciful man is wmerciful to | to his beast, etc. That smoothed things over for another month,” ““What happened then " ““Well, one day I sent Johnny, our youngest boy down to the etore for some sugar, and he took Gould along for company, Now, whether it was because Jay was fond of sugar or not, I don't know, but he came home alone and soon we noticed a peculiar kind bulge on his ribs about as big as Johany, and we conclud:d that the While here Yorker is said to have told a friend that he had had some famil difliculty, and was running off with this woman, intending to locate out west, Mrs, Graves mortgaged a place she owned in Kent, obtaining about §200, which is supposed to have been about all the couple had. The affair was quite a surprise to the citizens of Kent, as both parties were thought to be above succh proceedings, and Yorker had the name of being an in- dustrious, hard-working young man. The opinion prevails, however, that the principals in the affair will repent their folly and return ere long to the “bosom of their families”—indeed the mer Goods to make room for Fall Stock. GUILD & MCcINNIS, 603 N. 16th St., 2nd door N. of Cal.; E. Side, woman was scen in Norfolk a few days ago, sitting in the depot, evident- ly waiting for a train, so it is hardly probable that they went very far “out west,” Mr, Riffenstein, Boston, Mass,, write ur SPRIND BLossoM has cured me of yspepsia of four (4) years standing, 1 have regained my normal appetite, can sleep well and feel like n new man ' Price 0 cents, trial bottles 10 cents, eodlw A wonderful discov Wil acei- dentally made in Washington county u few days ago, The little sons of a farmer named Jerry Hopping, were bathing in a small creek, when one of them hurt his knee on what they took to be a stump. When the sup posed stump thrown out and | chopped with a hatchet it proved to be a shoulder bone of some ancient mammoth, and measured three foet in length, thirtecn inches wide and six inches thick. Further excavations resulted in the discovery of rib bones five and six feet long and three and a half inches wide, and several molars, one of which weighed twenty six pounds, Joints of the neck vertobra: were seventeen inches long and nine inches wide. A tusk ten inches in diameter and six feet long was also found, but proved somewhat brittle, INVITATION TO ALL WHO HAVE WATCHES AND CLOCKS 10 BE REPAIRED, ENGRAVING —T0O BE DONE OR— JEWELRY ;. MANUFACTURED. While our Work .is better, our Prices are Lower than all others, AT TEHER @LASYT S AT TH TR AT e, | received all of the SIX FIRST PREMIUMS offered for Competition in our line The " oy o V. s o et e Over All Competitors! preservation and prove great curiosi- ties, Do Not Despond Warner's Safe Kidnoy and Liver Cure will drive off the worst attack of “hlu codlw, FACTS THA If you are suf i KNOW, rng from a severe cough, asthuna, bronchitis, con U loss of voice, tickling in the throat, or any afection of the throat or lungs, we know that I Kixa's New Discovery will give y immediate relic We know of kun dreds of has completely cured, and that all other medicines 1 fail No other remedy can show one half as many permanent cures, Now to give you satisfactory proof that Dr. Kixo’s New Discoy Ery will cure you of Asthma, Bron. chitis, Hay Fever, Consumption, Se- vere Coughs and Colds, llluuruum-n, orany Throat or Lung Disease, if you will call at J. K, Isu & McManon's Drug Store you can get a trial bottle of cost, or a regular JanlGly(2) A. G. TROUP, ATTORNEY - AT - LAW. 508 1 whie U Having 1. For the Best Watch Work, For the Best Jewelry, (own make,) For the Best Engraving, For the Best Diamonds (own importation) FOR THE BEST QUALIT Y 'GOOIDS DISPLAYED, ETC. oly enlarged my workshops and putting in new and improved ma , I hope to still more improve the quality and finish of our work and fill orders with more promptness than 1s usual, CAUTION ! My Motto has always been and always willlbe: ““First to gain superior facili- ties and then advertise the fact—not before —no wild advertisements, Some unprincipled dealers bemng in the habit of copying my announcements, I would beg you, the reader of t his, to draw a line between such copied advertisements and those of Yours, very truly, 'A. B. HUBERMANN, The Reliable Jeweler, Omaha, Neb., 8ign of the 8triking Town Clock.

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