Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 19, 1882, Page 3

LEREFRIBED&CO, The Only Exclusive Wholesale Hardware ‘House JUDAH P. BENJAMIN, The Ex-Confederate Cabinat Minister a Leading Poglish Lawyer, London Letter to Atlants Constitution I doubt if there is at the South one shell of the one left them by the bush- man, who went away shortly after, but as they wero in an ostrich coun- try, they remounted their horses, later in the afternoon, and galloped at an easy pace in search of game, well aware from previous experience, of the dif ticultios in the way of success. Turn RAILWAY TIME TABLE, prmenn THE JELM MOUNTAIN a.m. Ao ¢t No. 1, 530 p.m, G-OLD man L\!m}‘.\r N‘hyh" country's his- |ing tho heads of their horses toward N XN WELE] WWEIST. tory for the last thirty years who is | “sandy ridge, two or three miles ¢ Subep bt ALl . - vers not proud of the career of Judah P. |agqy they rode slong until the base| g spduly 3 “08 AND ”IO HARNEY STREET Benjamin. Ininquiring tor his cham- | was” feached, when they reived up| * M8 &, m. and 8407 * | bors, T loarned from o middie-tomple | iy at sight of an osteich neat, § s o, and 790 | 7 el barrister that Mr. Bonjamin was re- | qlmcat in their very path. The cap * 08 mouTTwReYs R T U A e e N ES garded to-day as the test OT | tain got down from the saddle to ex - o s Aol o a ing C ” at the English bar. Ho is in conrtall | umine the curious sight a little more| 0 & S ol rbre i ¥ Mlnlnt: and M|||.n,n bompany. day till 4 in the afternoon, then until| josely. T 3 vy scooped ont of Q. A"k ¥ for Lindao, 11346 & Vorking Capltalt - - - . . p y 25, at his club in tho West Eed. His|on andgso as to occupy tho smallest " st | STOOR F N A o ouly loisure is on Sunday, and_an oo- [ 10 i sbace, | A thoso all looked oo AT\)C‘_; FULLY P‘_AID‘UP AND NON-ASSESSABLE Mines Located in BRAMEL MINING DISTRIOT, OFEXTCERLS, e WHOLESALE e Ght, 8:25 . 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F3, HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS, Ete, STOVES, relating his adventures, reverses, and successes with the charming ease, grace, and naturalness, mingled with a subtle playfulness of a good racortour, He said, in talking of his adventures after the fall of Richmond, that the confederate government left Richmond in a body He and Mr. Davis were together on their way to the Trans-Mississippi do- partment, and Mz Davis loft the party to mect his wife, en route, and it was in her camp that he was cap- tured. The federals did not know that Mr. Davis was in the wagon train which was transporting Mrs, Davis andl friend, and only appreached curiously to see what it meant. Mr, Benjamin continued his journey alone, and hearing of the capture of Mr. Davis, gaveaway his saddle and bridle, and securing an old tree threw over it a sheep-skin, and under an alias, playing farmer, at length reach the gulf const, Here ho took a small boat, and coasting around until ar- riving at a point near Key West, he embarked in a small sail- boat, open and without deck, for Naseau Here the small, quaint-looking, black and bright oyes glistonod as this remarkablo man rela- ted how, when the Gulf'stream,almost carried thom out into the open sen; when battling against a head-wind and out of gight of land (for 100 miles was the distance), and ‘‘with one bushel of sweet potatoes to feed three wen”, when almost without hopo, at the last moment, the wind changed, filled their emall sail, carried them within sight of the light-house, and enabled them to effect a landing jnst at the extremwe northern point of the Bahamas, He landed in England }in September, In June, 1866, he was admitted to practice at the English bar; his admission was grant- ed by the Benchersof Lincolu’s Inn ing six months instead of 1hree years, as’ the rule gencrally requires, on the ground that he was an old momber of the bar of country governed und tho system of the common and the fact that as a_political exile, He published his “Benjamin on Sales” 1 1868, having in tho inter- vening years supported himself and his family by writing leading articles for the newspapers. 'The first year he made about 300 pouuds, the next year 400, and in the fourth year, he said, “my income was 1,060 pounds. It rapidly incrensed after that.” At the present rate of Mr. Benjamin's in- come he will in a few years, if heis not now, be the possessor of vast wealth, My book gave me my prac- tice,” and now, wonderful to relate, “I have,” said he, ‘‘upon looking over my cases yesterday, just one-half of the cases from the realm (i. e., the whole of England, Scotland, and Ire- land) before the house of lords on the appeal.” Mr. Benjamin's daughter has married a French officer of the staff, and his wife and daughter live he is a man of simple, natural manner, | tho gilded pipes of the organ in chureh, | 0 which one keeps trying to enumerate during the sermon, they are so very similar that they blend and run to gether ro that the eye has hard work to make sure of the number, “The cunniug native knows how to keop the supply of cggs going; inatesd of gathoring in all like that bare-legged follow, he will skillfully draw out the eggs with a long stick until twe or threo are left. If ho does his part well the mother, when she roturns, will not notice that threo are loss than a dozen, and will continuo laying all through the season —that is, from Junoe to October.” The friends now rode to tho the ridge, haltirg and taking a care- tul survey of the country before them; the result was one that awakenod hope and delight, Less thana half wmile distant was a ridgo parallel with the one on which they had haited; and botween the two ran a valley several miles in extent, Near the middle of this two ostriches were grazing, while a gentlo breeze was blowing trom tho cast. Instoad of separating and at tempting to flank the birds, the horse- men rode at a leisurely gullop in the direction of the eastern end of the valley. This was narrower than the opposite opening, which therofore offerod the very best chanco 1in the world for the birds to escapo, for thoy could speedily dash through it iuto the open country beyond, whero they would be safe gainst harm during that afternoon at least; but it is on such occasions that tho ostrich gives an exhibition of stupidity which approaches the mar- velous, The sight of tho hunters making for the eastern opening of the valloy seemed to give the ostriches the belief that their cnomics were try- ing to cut oft their only avenue of flight, and instead of turning the opposite way, they instantly started on their long, swift trot toward the point at which the hunters wero alao heading with much the start of the birds. The two ostriches displayed still more marked failure to *‘graap the situation.” The singular chase could not have lasted long, when the birds, running almost sido by side, must have seen that the horsemen wore sure to reach the opening ahead of them. But, not only did thoy ro- fuse to turn back, but they also failed to swerve in the slightest degroe from their course on which they had started; they simply in- creased their speed, and, with their ungainly necks outstrotched, struck a two-minute trot and sped away for the most dangerous point on the hori- zon. As the pursuers wore quite cor- tain of their game, they now slack- ened their gait somewhat, and each fired a shot. The bullet of Capt. Fewsmith went through the brain of his bird, which ran a few steps in a wild, staggering way and then went down, its head plowing quite a furrow in the sand. Leaping from his saddle, o P Through Exprem-—i:1 p! o, 5. & M. Lincoin Expr 1 Yocal paasenger traln ' Lovre Omaha-0:16, | P, R, Crosswait & Co [} p. m. Arrive ; w; 80, 708, 7113, | Wo G Jones. . Missouri Pacific trains will depart and arrive as follows, time: Trans leaving 6 m. and arriving | G, Soper. .. Pullman | G, B. Cadwoll In the old Favorite and ! 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The captain is a veteran, and his account of a little ex- perience of himself and Harrod is interest The game inhabited the dry portions of Africa from Egypt and the Barbary states to the cape, and “vere he not the most idotic game in the world, it would have been al- most impossible to capture or sheot him. The ostrich’s sight and hearing are wonderfully keen, and he can run at tho rate of a mile in two minutes for a long time, but with every advan- tage on his side, his own stupidity proves his destruction, Capt. Fewsmith and his faiend were well mounted, but as the day was ex- tremely hot, they picketed their ani- mals under shade trees and threw themselyes on the ground to smoke and rest until the sun should descend lower in the sky. A balf-hour later Capt. Fewemith ealled attention to a curious visitor approachi As the two hunters rose to their feet they percelved that he was a bushmar without any covering for his head, with a very scauty shirt, no foot gear, and with his trougers elung over his shoulder, The lege of these trousers were filled with somothing which ex- pand lod them almont to the bursting point. When the grinping native came up he carefully lot down tie heavily weighted garment and drew out an ostrich egg, which he presented to Capt, Fewsmith, “‘Let us see how many he has,” said Harrod, who proceeded to find out the capacity of the rather flappy trousers legs. The owner, on coming upon the ostrich nest, had doffed his lower garment, torn off a strip from the waistband, with which he tied the button of each trousers leg, and then he had proceeded to despoil the nest with a8 much enthusiasm as an Amer- in Paris, the captain hurried forward and out the throat of the ostrich, 8o as to end its sufferings. It was almost at the same instant that Harrod diacharged his rifle, and, seeing the bird acting strangely, he was confident of having inflicted a mortal wound, aud was scarcely bo- hind the captain in springing to the ground to dispatch his priz But he had made a slight mistake, for when he had plsced himself directly in the path of the bird, and held his hunting knife ready to give him the finishing touch, the ostrich seemed to brighten up. Before the gentleman suspected his intention ho delivered a t c kick, which tum bled the hunter over on his back as if sirucd by a falling tree. The ostrich is capable of kicking with such foree as to kill the panther or jackall, and he does it by throwing his fool for ward, the same as a man., In the present instanco Mr. Harrod foll xo quickly that Captain Fowsmith ran forward in alarm. Assisting him to his feet, he was found to be little in- jured, although ho declared, with u grim smile, that he knew more about ostriches than he ever did betore, The bird kept on trotting straight away until he vanished in the twilight and was seen no more, while the hun- ters were glad enough to o into camp and wait till the morrow, There are different methods of hunt- ing the ostrich. Every school boy recalls the picture of the bushman awkwardly diguised as one of the birds, who is thereby enabled to ap- proach close enough to u herd to bring down several with his bow and arrow, In other cases, the hunter lies in wait and uses poisoned arrows, In North Africa, the game is pursued on horeo- back, the chase being kept up for soy- eral days, until the bird is literally run down and incapablo of going further or making resistance, Some- times a herd 18 forced into the water, where it is an easy matter to knock them in the head, The European horseman prefer to concesl themselves near pools and springs whero the bird is in the habit of coming to drink, so a8 to shoot him unawares. The value of the ostrich, of course, lies in its plumage, These feathers are very costly, it rarely happening that more than two dozen marketable DETROIT, NIAGARA FALLS, NEW YORK,BOSTON, And all Poluts East and®@outh-East. THE LINE COMPRISES Noarly 4,000 miles. 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